Fighting cybercrime with the right software: a pending issue in the digitization of companies

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Monday, February 7, 2022-11:45

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2019 was the year everything changed.

If society was already heading towards a hybrid work model (in the office and at home) that forced companies to

, the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the process to unsuspected limits.

A change that is reflected in the latest report from HP Wolf Security, the brand's portfolio of solutions against cybercrime, 'Out of Sight & Out of Mind'.

Employees and IT must work together

This HP Security Wolf report combines data from a

conducted by YouGov of more than 8,000 workers who started working from home since the pandemic, and another global survey of 1,100 IT decision makers conducted by Toluna .

The conclusions were enlightening.

Large, small and medium-sized companies had to acquire equipment to deal with this new labor paradigm.

In this sense, and using data from the HP report, half of those surveyed bought computer equipment, such as computers and printers, to be able to work from home.

and 43% did not bring their laptop to the IT department for review and installation.

Half did the same with their printer.

Other data that the survey showed

and that highlight the need to implement security software to business equipment for its optimal development:

74% of IT teams have seen

in emails in the last year.

Almost half of them, 49%, claim to have done it working at home.

Of all those who clicked on malicious links, seven out of ten did not properly report it to IT, 20% did not do so for 'do not disturb' and 12% did not take action for fear of possible action Against them.

These data, without a doubt, reflect the need to take into account the

that devices have when purchasing them.

HP Wolf Security shows that the cyber attacker is ahead of the company's actions

Another of the reports in which the brand highlights the importance of acquiring a good security portfolio is

, which includes an analysis of the most common cyberattacks.

The research team that produced the report found an increase in the ability of cybercriminals to exploit zero day vulnerabilities.

These types of malicious attacks, which can even be carried out by hackers with little training, have been detected thanks to millions of endpoints (remote computing devices that can communicate with a network to which they are connected)

.

The HP brand security portfolio enables malware to be localized by opening tasks that may be susceptible to cyberattacks in isolated micro virtual machines.

In this way,

, helping to mitigate threats that are undetectable in other similar security tools.

The result of having HP Wolf Security on IT equipment is clear: customers have been able to open 10 billion attachments in emails, web pages, and downloads

.

HP Wolf Security continually works to understand the behavior of viruses.

In this way they can offer the security that companies deserve.

HP Wolf Security: an essential security portfolio for the IT department

Thanks to H

companies

will be able to avoid:

• Malware and browser-based attacks

• Quarantine damaged files

• Have an anti-phishing engine that scans and alerts users to web pages that may be capturing user passwords, login details, and other credentials.

In addition,

, adapted to the different needs of the business sector.

• HP Wolf Enterprise Security Solution:

  Aimed at large companies that already have security solutions but need an additional layer.

  It is also specially designed for public sector organizations, where large amounts of sensitive data are handled and good security software is definitely a must.

• HP Wolf Pro Security Solution:

  Aimed at businesses with overloaded IT equipment or no IT resources.

  Thanks to this software, these types of companies will have a powerful security solution to avoid aggressive cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity is one of the

.

And now that this process, irreversible in the age of technology, has accelerated, it

.

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