As a consultant we will come in and look at the number of PC's & Servers running on your LAN to make a determination of which Antivirus solution best fits your needs.

Key Benefits

• Not having to research multiple Antivirus software.
• Over 10 Years of experience in fighting viruses.
• Flexible Scheduling to keep your down time to a minimum.

WHY IS ANTIVIRUS NEEDED?

I have been dealing with virus infected computers about as long as I have been working with computers. Back when the only way to transmit or get a virus was from sharing floppy disks. Then when the internet and email started to become popular this is when I found there was a very large need for antivirus software. It is much easier to prevent virus infections than deal with the damages caused from one. With email now used as an important business communication tool, viruses are spreading faster than ever. Viruses attached to email messages can infect an entire enterprise in a matter of minutes, costing companies millions of dollars annually in productivity loss and cleanup expenses. Antivirus has become a necessity in the changing communication environment.

The Computer Security Institute conducted a survey of 538 computer security practitioners in corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, medical institutions, and universities in the United States. Their results revealed that 85 percent of respondents had detected computer security breaches within a twelve-month period. The 35 percent who listed a financial impact reported $377,828,700 in financial losses. Of these, many cited their Internet connection as the point of attack for hackers.

JUST HOW REAL IS THE CYBER-THREAT OF DESTRUCTIVE COMPUTER VIRUSES?

Viruses won’t go away anytime soon. More than ten thousand have been identified and 500 new ones are created every month, according to the International Computer Security Association (ICSA). With numbers like those, it’s safe to say that most organizations deal regularly with virus outbreaks. No one who uses computers is immune from viruses. With the growth of the Internet and email as the main communication tools, viruses and malicious code are undoubtedly a major concern for many businesses. A single email attachment or execution of a virus from the Internet or email can lead to widespread infection in a matter of hours and result in costly downtime.

WHAT RISK IS YOUR NETWORK FACING RIGHT NOW?

More than 87% of all viruses enter the enterprise via email.5 Email has evolved beyond communication to become a business critical application. If email goes down, vital links to customers and vendors go down with it, and business grinds to a halt. In this scenario, the entry point is an infected spreadsheet attached to an email sent via the Internet to 100 recipients at both Company A and Company B. It is assumed that 100% of computers are infected. Investing in email virus protection can save an enterprise $22,000 per incident or, calculating the assumed average number of times a hacker will attempt to crack a network, $528,000 per year.

 

At one time the corporate safe was hidden behind a picture in the CEO’s office—today the most precious assets are information. The concern here is with the loss of confidential or proprietary information due to an uncontrolled virus attack. There is no way to measure the actual value of information rendered unrecoverable by a malware program, but the cost can be high. According to the ICSA,6 36 percent of 300 organizations surveyed reported their servers were down for 1 hour or less, with the median downtime being 21 hours. A few respondents experienced longer recovery times up to 1,000 hours. More than 80 percent of those reporting a virus outbreak required 20 person-days or less to recover. The average cost was between $10,000 (median) and $120,000 (average) in estimated direct costs. The sooner an infection is detected, the lower the cost of eradicating it and the lower the residual costs due to damage and data loss. Stopping viruses at the server, rather than removing infections from numbers of files on hundreds of workstations, will save thousands of dollars per incident.

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Reference Accounts

Dynamark Security Inc. <Dave Cassell> 423-323-5908

Complete Antivirus Solution for Corporate Office

Crabtree Buick Pontiac Inc. <Danny Shipley> 276-669-3141

Complete Antivirus Solution for Multiple Dealerships

J Bare Inc. <Johnny Bare>  423-538-5273

Complete Antivirus Solution for all Corporate locations

R&E Bare LLC. <Elmer Bare>  276-466-9390

Complete Antivirus Solution for all Corporate locations

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