Endpoint Protection Software to prevent transit Hack

The latest victim of a calculated ransomware attack was San Francisco’s transportation agency, making people around the nation wonder if their transit services are also at risk. San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) was hit by a hack that allowed customers to travel for free. 

The hacker demanded 100 Bitcoin in ransom, or $73,000 but the transportation agency said they refused to pay. In an effort to lessen the impact on customers, the city was forced to turn off all ticketing machines on the network, which allowed travelers to journey for free.

Back in 2008, a teenager was able to hack a transit system in Lodz, Poland and derail four trams. In the same year, hackers found a way to hack the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, although they never launched an attack. Security researchers from the University of Michigan found a way to manipulate 1,000 traffic lights just by using a laptop and a wireless radio.

As ransomware threats rise, transportation agencies and other organizations should use the following tips to keep their systems protected from attacks: 

• A good idea for organizations to back up their information on a different network

• Organizations should also partition their data, so malware doesn’t get a chance to infect entire network.

• Employees should know to avoid clicking on malicious links from untrustworthy email addresses

• Organizations can use endpoint protection software to automatically address and neutralize threats before they get a chance to attack. 

Promisec Endpoint Manager (PEM) lets organizations keep their systems secure from ransomware threats. PEM lets organizations monitor their networks for suspicious activity, which prevents ransomware attacks from going unnoticed.

Software License Management to keep Network Organized

Do you know that your company needs software licenses and do you know why your company needs a license for the software? How much you know about the importance of an asset management software? These are the questions that are important to keep your network organized and more secured. Since the competition is increasing, various companies start using PC networks for saving the money that can be spent on buying a software and hardware as well. This might look cheaper way, but it can be expensive if it harms the security of a system and data. Therefore, one needs to manage it in a proper way.

So, what can be a solution to such problem? The most effective way and program designed for such purpose is the Software License Management. It has been found around 43 % of the softwares deployed in the workstations are not licensed that can impact the security of the confidential data in the workstations. This tool keeps track of every computing activity taking place at a time. It lets you know that which software must be installed in the system and which software must not be installed.

Benefits of Software License Management and Software Asset Management:

• It provides you the visibility of how your software is being used in the system so that you could spend cost on that particular software license accordingly.
• It helps you to get rid of the fines that can result from a vendor audit done by the Business Software Alliance.
• Managing the risks become easy so you get to know whether software products are supported by vendor or not.