CYBERPROTECTION FOR SERVERS

Protection against cyber attacks is one of the most important aspects in IT. Over the years, more and more companies have made a shift to digitalised business processes. As a result, business workflows and therefore data are shifting into the virtual space and are susceptible to cyber attacks and vulnerabilities in IT systems. To counteract this danger, effective protection of the IT infrastructure and a cyberprotection plan are necessary. Nowadays, cyberprotection no longer means the simple use of an antivirus programme for a workstation in the company or at home. For effective protection of the server infrastructure, we need not only an antivirus programme for servers, but also the possibility to detect and evaluate the attacks and to protect important data on the server. Many statistics show that the number of cyber attacks has risen and will continue to rise. Accordingly, the topic of server cyber protection is becoming increasingly relevant for many companies, and in some cases even necessary for their existence.

Cybercrime affects many companies and attacks are increasing every year. Damages in the twelve-digit range are caused and livelihoods are threatened. Statistics show that 9 out of 10 German companies are affected by cybercrime. The increasing trend to outsource important business processes into the digital space plays a major role in this. This change brings new dangers and inadequate server cyber protection makes it a potential target for cyber criminals. Server antivirus is an important foundation to effectively protect data, information, intellectual property and more. Many IT companies are dedicated to staying one step ahead and offer various solutions in this area. Setting up a functioning server antivirus required extensive IT knowledge, but cybersecurity companies have continually worked on more user-friendly solutions to enable anyone to implement successful server cyberprotection.

Without exception, everyone has encountered computer viruses at some point in their IT career. Computer viruses are malware that compromise other software, a boot sector or RAM and spread from there. The spreading malware can then make changes to operating systems and other software and even cause hardware damage. Servers play a business-critical role in many companies and require particularly extensive protection against malware. The importance of server anti-virus is usually underestimated and strong server cyberprotection is in most cases incidental. Many operating systems have built-in virus protection for servers and give the appearance of security. However, these are usually incomplete and should be supplemented by an anti-virus program for servers in order to protect this critical hardware in the best possible way.