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Story: Virus downs systems at three London hospitals

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Posted by: lumension (Wednesday 19 November 2008, 7:45 AM)

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Eliminate Malware by Controlling Application Use

This report draws our attention to the fact that once again, the battle to protect a network from malware has proved insurmountable. We are now very aware that anti-virus applications alone cannot control this problem. Out of the 99% of enterprises with anti-virus protection, 62% still suffered a malware infection. (Yankee Group, 2005 Security Leaders and Laggards Survey)

One solution to consider to defend against such problems is a more pro-active approach, Application Control (white-listing) which provides granular, policy-based enforcement of application use to proactively secure endpoints from data leakage, malware, spyware, keyloggers, Trojans, rootkits, worms and viruses, zero-day threats and unwanted or unlicensed software.

Think about how you control this type of outbreak - by identifying the potential threats and stopping them OR just stopping them from executing in the first place.

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