The modern threat landscape for SMBs is evolving at an alarming rate. Not only has the volume of attacks increased, but the nature and sophistication of these attacks has grown. This is causing SMBs to lose valuable data, putting clients at risk and in some cases, closing their doors.
SMBs are facing the same threats as enterprise organizations, but attackers are targeting them first because they are more vulnerable. Smaller businesses work as vendors to enterprises, causing attackers to often view them as the gateway to enterprise organizations. Not having a dedicated security department, while also being a frequent target, means it can be extremely difficult to manage the risk of a breach.
At Nutmeg Technologies, we look at where your risks are and determine how we can protect you before an attack occurs. We help you leverage your resources in the areas where they’ll be the most effective.
Ransomware can affect any organization irrespective of size or industry. Therefore, more than one solution is often required to protect against infections. Our protection solutions use an architectural approach to improve defenses with discovery, visibility, and intelligence.
Period audits should be performed to determine who can access what data and to guarantee data is distributed on a need to know basis with separate privilege policies for employees, clients and vendors. Privilege strategies should include storing your business-critical data on a dedicated server that can’t be accessed by third parties and having a demilitarized zone (DMZ) to separate services for third parties from your corporate network.
It’s important to backup more than just your files. Ransomware infections require server rebuilds, so being able to perform “vm level” image level backups are essential to the restoration process. Equally important is the ability to spin up Virtual Machines in place of your infected servers to keep your employees productive while the incident is remediated
Administer security policies at the application level, block unauthorized access to your data, and prevent hackers from intercepting data or installing Trojan applications on user devices.
Ransomware is spread through emails that masquerade as normal mail. Unknowingly end-users click on links or documents attached and spread the virus. To prevent infected mail and documents from reaching your users, we install spam and malware email filters and establish a robust password strategy. A hosted email provider is the best protection to safeguard your users and business, delivering automatic updates ensuring that as new threats appear you remain protected.
