The vast majority of worms and other successful cyber attacks are made possible by vulnerabilities in a small number of common operating system services. Attackers are opportunistic. They take the easiest and most convenient route and exploit the best-known flaws with the most effective and widely available attack tools.
They count on organizations not fixing the problems, and they often attack indiscriminately, scanning the Internet for any vulnerable systems. The easy and destructive spread of worms, such as Blaster, Slammer, and Code Red, can be traced directly to exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities.
8 Elements of Computer Security according to NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Technology Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce

  • Computer security should support the mission of the organization.
  • Computer security is an integral element of sound management.
  • Computer security should be cost-effective.
  • Computer security responsibilities and accountability should be made explicit.
  • System owners have computer security responsibilities outside their own organizations.
  • Computer security requires a comprehensive and integrated approach.
  • Computer security should be periodically reassessed.
  • Computer security is constrained by societal factors.
Are YOU the Weakest Link?
What is Data Security all About?

What Can You Do?

Hackers use robots or 'bot networks' to attack your computer day and night. Wouldn't it be great if you could build a robot to find these hackers and bring them to justice?

WE HAVE ONE!

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Contact Marloe Group and learn how we can track, identify and collect forensic evidence to destroy a hacker.
How can we help?
Experience - Our expertise has been called upon by the U.S. State Department as well as Banks and Computer Manufacturers based in Houston.

FSDM - Our methodology for IT has been built up from 20 years of computer networking experience, and what makes us different is we wrote it all down.

Managed Services - Our solution will allow you to manage your business while we take care of the tools that make your business run. Our experience guarantees your IT department will be a better more responsible department. Our policies and procedures give you tools to see what is really going on.

Documentation - We document our work, and your network. If things go bad and you have to evacuate the building, there are procedures for shut down, for evacuating equipment, and protecting data, written so that anyone can figure it out. Minimize your risk, call Marloe Group today.

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.....The average time-to-exploitation on some networks for an unprotected computer is measured in minutes. This is especially true in the address ranges used by cable modem, DSL, and dial-up providers.

-US CERT
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team