(Dr. Neil Daswani – Dasient, Inc.) presented today a very interesting series of statistics relating to malware, its spread and how it really affects your hosting customers.
To me, the largest risk is the brand impact, and the usually large costs associated with not just remediation activities, but moreso the actions required to get you REINDEXED on Google, etc. I have seen some of my customers been impacted by this, and had their google traffic drop to 0, and worse still, take sometimes weeks to get their site out of the filters.
Neil spent some time as well reviewing their solution, but to me, the most interesting statistic was that based on their analysis, less than 1% of the malware filters across the associated vendors (Google, Browser filters, etc.) actually matched up. So, getting your site off of the filters takes A LOT of time, and worse still, has a reverb effect. You may be listed here, but not there…until tomorrow, where the inverse may be true.
While most all agree that prevention is the best medicine, we all know that not everyone does this. Dasient gives a good cost effective measure for notification services if you happen to have malware problems.
About Jason Remillard
Jason Remillard has been involved with Enterprise IT for over 15 years now with extensive exposure to corporate security and compliance issues. He has a proven track record leading geographically diverse development teams in North and South America, Europe, China and India. A strong communicator who has delivered CxO-level presentations globally and fostered advanced relationships with Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, and other high-profile vendors - Jason is currently with Quest Software Inc - as a Product Manager for some of its leading Enterprise security and automation toolsets.
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