Malware: It’s Not If…It’s When

An unfortunate fact for IT departments is that they will, at some point, face a malware crisis.

Here’s how addressing malware normally plays out.

At some point after the infection occurs, usually much later, it gets noticed. Whether by pure luck or through receiving a ransom notice, the IT department becomes aware of the crisis after it has already spread.

The IT team attempts to outrun the exploding crisis. To prevent further infection, they shut down every device. Then, one by one, they must be booted back on and cleaned of the infection.It could take days, weeks, or even months, to get every device cleared of the malicious software. An enormous amount of money is lost to destroyed productivity and IT labor hours.

But there’s a new way to tackle a malware crisis.

How Syxsense Realtime Security Can Address Malware

Live data means being able to see processes and status in real time. Using the AI-powered personal assistant, an IT manager would simply ask ‘Is WannaCry running on my devices?’ The console would then show where any such process was running.

If the process is running on devices, the option to kill it is available. A process can be killed on a device by device basis or everywhere it’s running.But what if the malware changes its name to escape detection?

Realtime Security can still detect the process by MD5. It’s that simple; identify devices running the process, and then kill it with a button click. From there, an alert can be set so that if it somehow starts running again, you will know immediately.

Realtime Security means having live data that is secure, accurate, and actionable.