When it comes to keeping your business protected, a holistic, integrative approach to cyber security works best. This should include sandboxing software that quarantines and analyzes threats.
What is Sandboxing Software?
According to Techopedia, sandboxing software is a “security mechanism in which a separate, restricted environment is created and in which certain functions are prohibited.”
In other words, it separates vulnerable applications from accessing the important resources on your network.
For example, you can create a sandboxed version of Microsoft Outlook. This way, if an employee on your network opens a malware infected email, the hacker cannot access anything else on your network, only the data within Outlook.
5 Huge Benefits of Sandboxing
1. Stops Zero Day Threats
Zero day threats exploit unknown security vulnerabilities. They’re extremely dangerous, because manufacturers can’t issue patches until they fully understand the weakness being exploited.
Sandboxing software is excellent at quarantining these threats. There’s no guarantee that it will stop zero day exploits (although it might), but sandboxing almost always works for damage control by separating the threat from the rest of your network.
2. Provides Context for Future Attacks
When threats and viruses are quarantined, cyber security experts can study them and identify patterns. This helps prevent future attacks and further identify network vulnerabilities.
3. Hybrid Solutions
Hybrid technology solutions are those that can be deployed both locally (from a piece of hardware on premise in your company) or via the cloud (through the internet).
These solutions offer increased security, reliability and cost-effectiveness than others. Many sandboxing software programs are hybrid solutions.
4. Complements other Security Programs
From behavior monitoring programs to antivirus software, sandboxing is a perfect complement to other security programs. Sandboxing software protects against certain strains of malware that your antivirus may fail to detect, and vice versa.
5. Collaborates with Remote Employees
One huge reason some companies hesitate to implement a full-scale remote desktop protocol (RDP) strategy is because of the security threats. However, sandboxes can be configured to collaborate with RDP to ensure connections to the company network are secure even outside of the office.
While sandboxing software won’t singlehandedly protect your network completely on its own, it’s a critical part of your comprehensive cyber security strategy.
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