The Importance of Having a Web Filter

When you hear of cyber attacks and stolen credit cards or identities it's mostly from virus attacks within corporate or government networks.

The cyber-hackers “are clearly ahead of the defense in terms of anti-virus solutions, firewall solutions, etc,” Jeffrey Troy, chief of the FBI’s cybercrime section told the Financial Times. Online bank thefts in 2009 had seen “a very dramatic increase from past years”.

Having a filter that blocks most non business websites extremely important to protecting valuable information. Some professionals, citing the ongoing boom in virus infections through such social networks as Facebook and Twitter, fear the trends could combine in 2010.

Mr Troy estimated that criminals took about $40m from bank accounts this year, primarily targeting the small and mid-sized businesses that are themselves customers of small and mid-sized banks.

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0890892c-e68b-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1