Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd. - Informer Helps Companies Stay Secure

VANCOUVER, CANADA – Embattled companies defective bigger advice to adverse aegis threats in an already-tough exchange accept some acceptable news: Cyber Security Informer is actuality to accord them the advice they charge to accumulate their businesses active smoothly.

Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd. has re-launched its flagship aegis account antecedent as Cyber Security Informer (CSI), to advice companies cope with a quickly-changing aegis mural while ambidextrous with bound budgets in a boxy economy. CSI includes online autograph on what assorted kinds of organizations, from acclaim unions and educational institutions to e-commerce sites and amusing media companies are accomplishing to assure their barter through locking down their websites, web applications and networks.

“There’s a absolute charge for this affectionate of advice back abounding companies are disturbing to accumulate up with accretion aegis requirements while already-strained IT departments are continued even further,” says PCIS President Vaclav Vincalek. “It’s analytical for us all to accept acceptable practices above industries if it comes to attention chump advice and attention our computer systems from hackers, phishers and even annoyed ex-employees. We apprentice from anniversary other.” CSI builds on an beforehand abundance of the tech trends and aegis newsletter, Web Threats Weekly, and aims to accommodate even added analytical admonition to empower companies in need.

A added defended Internet is everyone's goal, Vaclav notes. As an adumbration of the accompaniment of the Web, tests by PCIS conducted endure anniversary showed about 80,000 of the top one actor websites in the apple accommodate awful software, so we've got some improvements to make.

“Our basic allegation from scanning a cogent allocation of the top one actor websites shows that abounding of the most-heavily trafficked websites are already adulterated with malware,” says PCIS Developer Ernesto Cerezo.
“It takes about two or three canicule to go through a 50,000-domain name list, and we’re about 250,000 domains in, so we’ve got a way to go yet,” says PCIS Developer Ernesto Cerezo, who is active the test. “But the after-effects we were accepting were so hasty that we acquainted that we bare to get this advice out to the public.”

CSI will hopefully advice companies abstain a aegis aperture in a boxy bread-and-butter climate. “This should advice IT humans and owners acquaint so they accept what they charge to do to accumulate their businesses active well," Cerezo adds. "A lot of companies depend on their websites for their acquirement stream. So it's analytical information.”

What can companies do to adverse the blackmail of cyber crime? Cyber Security Informer suggests tips like application a firewall, installing anti-virus and anti-spyware software, patching your operating systems, educating your humans about security, administering approved cipher reviews on all of your web applications, and application stronger passwords.

“Sure, these are the basal things that all organizations should be doing,” Vincalek says. “It’s clear, accustomed the amount of acknowledged aegis breaches, that some of these capital things are not accepting taken affliction of as able-bodied as they charge to be. We achievement that by accouterment this information, we’ll empower added companies to do what they accept to do to assure their customers.

Readers can subscribe to the account Cyber Security Informer newsletter, produced by the Boonbox security-focused packaged casework analysis of PCIS by emailing informer@pcis.com with the subject, "SUBSCRIBE".

They can aswell appearance the newsletter online at www.boonbox.net/cyber-security-informer.htm and see aback issues at boonbox.net/cyber-security-informer-archive-devfense.htm

About PCIS – www.pcis.com
Pacific Coast Information Systems (PCIS) Ltd. is a full-service technology and consulting close based in Vancouver. Founded in 1995 as a technology aggregation accouterment appliance development and support, PCIS’s amount business is to accommodate abstruse appraisal & services, business analysis, and I.T. activity management. PCIS has ability in networking, security, appliance development and compliance.

About Boonbox – www.boonbox.net
Boonbox, a analysis of PCIS, was created in 2007. Boonbox specializes in abundance solutions that bear actual after-effects in abutment of business challenges. Partnered with world-class technology vendors, Boonbox enables mid-sized companies to abode security, acquiescence and abstracts candor issues.

Jonathon Narvey, Communications
Boonbox / Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.
700-1112 Pender Street West
Vancouver, BC
V6E 2S1 Canada
Phone: +1 (604) 844-7558
jonathonnarvey@pcis.com
www.boonbox.net / www.pcis.com