Does Your Business Utilize Antivirus Software?

Organizations must protect themselves in our current climate littered with cyber threats. This fact can’t be negotiated, but many businesses have found themselves attempting to get by without protecting their assets or network infrastructure. Failing to implement security standards for your company could put its future on the line.

One might think that implementing an enterprise-level security solution for your small business might be overkill. After all, you’re a small business, not a large enterprise with a target on its back at every turn. Alas, the reality of this situation can’t be farther from the truth. Because you’re a small business, hackers know that you might not invest in security solutions. This makes them more inclined to target you. Consequently, one can see the importance of running security measures to stay secure.

It’s difficult to argue that preventative measures aren’t beneficial to the security of your company, and as far as keeping threats out of your infrastructure, you can’t go wrong with an enterprise-level firewall, spam protection, and content filtering solution. But where a lot of businesses get hung up on is antivirus, especially because they might be under the impression that an antivirus solution doesn’t yield a return on investment (ROI) unless your business does indeed suffer from a data breach. This isn’t necessarily the right way to look at antivirus’ ROI, though.

To figure out how much ROI an antivirus solution presents for your business, consider what it does. It terminates or quarantines threats on your network that would otherwise multiply and spread threat influence across your network (or beyond). When businesses suffer from a data breach, the initial infection is merely the inciting event. If a threat lingers, it can potentially inflict a critical amount of damage or infect multiple device. The costs of dealing with a data breach are significant, as your organization could pay a ludicrous amount of capital in reparations toward those who are affected, all while trying to keep operations moving forward and paying for any breaches of compliance that may have resulted from the attack on your business.

In the face of a data breach, it’s imperative to nip the attack in the bud before it causes more damage than it needs to. This is where antivirus solutions come in. If a threat is detected on your network, it’s immediately captured and eliminated or quarantined, limiting the scope of its influence on your infrastructure, all while limiting the amount you’ll have to pay out as a result of said breach. Paying for the solution to simply exist is much more manageable than shelling out countless dollars in the face of an attack, making antivirus all the more appealing as a preventative measure, even if it’s never used.

Your organization can take full advantage of antivirus solutions today by giving Macro Systems a call. We can help you implement only the most dynamic and responsive solutions for your business’ network security. To learn more, reach out to us at 703-359-9211.