Network Security Solutions

Go Systems Pty Ltd provides market leading solutions for the complete security of your business.

No business can afford not to have the very best in security solutions. Your business will thrive with effective solutions to safeguard your IT assets. Downtime costs money and our aim is to minimise any downtime to your business.

Organised crime is now involved with trying to steal your identity for financial gain.

Below is a Security Primer:

• Viruses and Worms: The term virus has long been used generically to describe any computer threat, but in actuality it refers specifically to malware that inserts malicious code into existing documents or programs, and then spreads itself by various means.
• Trojan Horse: A Trojan horse is a malware attack that disguises itself as something innocent, such as a computer game, or a YouTube search results page.
• Spam: Depending on the source cited, spam makes up 70 to 84 percent of daily emails sent throughout the world.
• Phishing refers to spam emails designed to trick recipients into clicking on a link to an insecure website. Typically, phishing attempts are executed to steal account information for e-commerce sites such as eBay, payments processors such as PayPal, or regular financial institutions' websites.
• Packet sniffers capture data streams over a network, thus allowing for the capture of sensitive data like usernames, passwords and credit card numbers.
• Maliciously-coded Web sites can take many different forms, from installing Trojan horses to redirecting you to an unrequested site. But one of the most threatening forms of maliciously-coded websites, those that are designed to steal passwords, are on the rise.
• A "Password Attack" is a general term that describes a variety of techniques used to steal passwords to accounts.Done in different ways such as Brute Force, Packet Sniffers, IP-Spoofing and trojans.
• Hardware Loss: How many people have sensistive information on their Notebooks or PC? These are lost and stolen and then the thief can scan for person data.
• Shared PC’s in the office is also an issue when people bring in USB memory cards which can now hold many Gigabytes of Data. They can also bring in viruses and other nasties.
• Zombie Computers and Botnets: 80% of SPAM is sent out by computers of ordinany individuals. Infected "zombie" computers, are organized by spammers into small groups called "botnets".