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Running Head: MITIGATING MALWARE 1

MITIGATING MALWARE 2

Title: Mitigating Malware

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Describe the best practice to employ to mitigate malware effects on a machine.

The malware displays advertisements that that are not wanted in the internet being used. Malware interrupts the operations of an organization giving unauthorized access to other systems in the organization. The best way of mitigating attacks from malware is by combining education, vigilance, and using software solutions (Rodrigues 2019). Vulnerability scanning is one of the mitigation measures. Regularly scanning for vulnerability is essential for the organization. Scanning helps in identifying the scanning network activities, which are malicious — scanning help in identifying the weakness of the host networks and also the types of possible attacks.

Implementing firewalls that are host-based on every computer is vital. The firewalls help in identifying the application's vulnerability as well as its legitimacy. Organizations should also update their anti-virus regularly. The anti-virus should be automatic to be able to update files automatically as well as scan the engines. The staff should also be trained on the malware types that are common so that they can avoid them and also how to provide responses to emails that are suspicious (Sako 2019). The use of spam filters and even the programs for anti-virus will help in detecting as well as filtering bad emails. The programs should always be operational to enhance automatic updating. Organizations are also encouraged to adjust web browser security settings regularly to increase protection. Routinely backing up all the organization data as well as keeping offline the copies in the archive will prevent the backups form infection (Husain & Khan, 2019). Other prevention mitigation measures include limiting the network use, reviewing the security of the email, changing the default settings of the tools, educating the users, developing security policies to guide the employees, authorizing devices for local networks, monitoring the logs as well as filtering the mails.

References

Breitinger, F., & Baggili, I. (2018). Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime: 10th International EAI Conference, ICDF2C 2018, New Orleans, LA, USA, September 10–12, 2018, Proceedings. Springer.

Husain, M., & Khan, M. (2019). Critical Concepts, Standards, and Techniques in Cyber Forensics. IGI Global.

Rodrigues, J. M., Cardoso, P. J., Monteiro, J., Lam, R., Krzhizhanovskaya, V. V., Lees, M. H., Dongarra, J. J., & Sloot, P. M. (2019). Computational Science – ICCS 2019: 19th International Conference, Faro, Portugal, June 12–14, 2019, Proceedings. Springer.

Sako, K., Schneider, S., & Ryan, P. Y. (2019). Computer Security – ESORICS 2019: 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Luxembourg, September 23–27, 2019, Proceedings. Springer Nature.