So, you don't want to get infected
by malware and you want to getsome work done
as well…Right?
And you have things to download.
You're not alone, the online population downloads a lot, considering iTunes alone handles over 7,000,000 song downloads every day and Amazon users download approximately 150,0000,000 ebooks a year (2014 numbers). And this doesn't even account for the majority of the things most people download like pictures, videos, applications and documents.
So…
- You don't want to be infected
- You do want to be able to download files freely
- You want to be able to get some work done, too.
You would seem to be at an impasse.
Luckily you're not.
Enter TRUE Default Deny
A Default Deny Platform
Posture allows you to
- Block the known bad
- Allow the know good
- AND Contain The Unknown.
It's the unknown files that have traditionally been where you get into trouble, since bad files always start off as unknown files till someone or something realizes that, in fact, they're malicious and are trying to infect you, turn your computer into a botnet, steal your information or ransom your data for money.
In the past, we'd call folks who got infected from a new piece of malware patient-zero because it took someone getting infected to figure out if a file was bad.
With a Default Deny Platform Approach there's never a patient-zero because unknown files are contained until it's determined that they're either good and added to a whitelist or bad and added to a blacklist.
So, what you're looking for is
Default Deny Platform.
In a Default Deny Platform environment, Known Good files are allowed in (whitelisting), Known Bad files are automatically blocked (blacklisting) and unknown files are automatically contained and assessed to determine whether they're good or bad.
While those files are being judged good or bad they're contained, and you're still able to use them, but if they turn out to be bad, they can't infect any endpoints or resources on your network.
So in essence, you get the best of both worlds: productivity and usability on the one hand and industry-leading protection on the other.
For more info on Default Deny Platform
take a look at Comodo's Enterprise Website
