Anatomy of a malware attack
Protect your users everywhere from malware in just minutes
Malicious software, commonly known as malware, is a catch all term for just about any software that’s designed to disrupt, damage, or force access to a computer system or network. Some of the most common types of modern malware include trojans, spyware, adware, ransomware – but malware threats constantly evolve.
As users increasingly work from anywhere in diverse ways (remote location, home, on the road, coffee shop, and more), many organizations find that their perimeter model of data-center centric cybersecurity is no longer sufficient.
Stop malware before it reaches your network
Cloud-delivered security from Cisco Umbrella can protect employees, wherever they work, on or off corporate network. Umbrella protects users’ access to the internet and public SaaS applications – where malware typically lives.
Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer security protects users from accessing malware associated with malicious domains by blocking unsafe destinations — before a connection is ever made. Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) goes further, protecting users from malware via unsafe URLs, encrypted traffic, non-standard ports and protocols, and more.
The threat of modern malware
75%
Of organizations experienced malware activity that spread from one employee to another. 1
>442K
“Never-before-seen” malware variants were identified in 2021 alone. 1
90+%
Malware threat detection rate — Cisco Umbrella is the highest in the industry, confirmed by AV-TEST. 2
Umbrella allows us to dramatically reduce the redirections to malicious websites hosting malware, and without latency. The dashboard gives deep insight on risky or infected domains, malware and C2 connections.
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