Trenton, NJ – According to New Jersey Business Magazine, “Cybersecurity is among the greatest issues facing businesses today, and Morris Plains-based Link High Technologies recently held a seminar featuring renowned security expert Gideon Lenkey. Lenkey, the former president and Chairman of the Board of the New Jersey InfaGard Chapter, has written numerous cybersecurity publications, and was featured in the documentary film Code 2600.”
Antivirus and Firewalls are Inadequate
Above all, Lenkey noted that firewalls and antivirus software are no longer sufficient because hackers can readily by-pass them with unique, undetectable malware – and assailants can do so without the targeted company ever becoming aware of the attack.
Lenkey stressed, “If there is one thing you take out of here today, it is: Yes, [firewalls and antivirus] are necessary, and, yes, they provide a protection value, but it’s not what you think it is. It is not what it was, 10 years ago. They are fully and thoroughly subverted at this point; it is easy to do.”
In fact, Lenkey and his team tested anti-malware products, and he reported: “It was like a hot knife through butter. It surprised even me. I was expecting that we would have [perhaps] an 80 percent fail rate, for the antivirus. I did not expect a 98 percent fail rate. Antivirus is almost useless at detecting a current threat; a current malware. Now, the longer the malware sits on the machine, the more the chance that the antivirus might catch it, if [the malware] is not being updated. You will find that antivirus software detects abandoned malware; malware that has been on your machine for a long time. It might be a worm or something out there, still spreading old stuff around. However, for the most part – the first wave threat is the one that is going to get you.”
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Above all, Lenkey noted that firewalls and antivirus software are no longer sufficient because hackers can readily by-pass them with unique, undetectable malware – and assailants can do so without the targeted company ever becoming aware of the attack.
Lenkey stressed, “If there is one thing you take out of here today, it is: Yes, [firewalls and antivirus] are necessary, and, yes, they provide a protection value, but it’s not what you think it is. It is not what it was, 10 years ago. They are fully and thoroughly subverted at this point; it is easy to do.”
In fact, Lenkey and his team tested anti-malware products, and he reported: “It was like a hot knife through butter. It surprised even me. I was expecting that we would have [perhaps] an 80 percent fail rate, for the antivirus. I did not expect a 98 percent fail rate. Antivirus is almost useless at detecting a current threat; a current malware. Now, the longer the malware sits on the machine, the more the chance that the antivirus might catch it, if [the malware] is not being updated. You will find that antivirus software detects abandoned malware; malware that has been on your machine for a long time. It might be a worm or something out there, still spreading old stuff around. However, for the most part – the first wave threat is the one that is going to get you.”
For the full story: http://njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now/a-new-jersey-business-magazine-special-report-small-business-cybersecurity-in-a-perilous-world/?utm_source=MagnetMail&utm_medium=email&[email protected]&utm_content=06272015NJBIA_NJB_Today&utm_campaign=Special%20Report%20on%20Small%20Business%20Cybersecurity
