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Orange Cyberdefense Launches New Mobile Decontamination Terminal For USB Flash DrivesSeventy percent of employees use USB flash drives from outside the company and connect them to the company network, and 68 percent take no precautions before inserting them into their work computer1. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180322005807/en/ Malware Cleaner from Orange Cyberdefense is now available in a "mini-terminal" version. Source (News - Alert): Orange USB flash drives, whether they are new or used, are major sources of infection for company IT systems. They are in widespread use, particularly in certain sectors such as in industry, education and healthcare, both for sharing documents and for updating software.
A new mobile terminal to remind people to decontaminate USB flash drives
Five integrated anti-virus search engines to detect threats Malware Cleaner simultaneously uses five anti-virus search engines to optimize and combine the extent and performance of detection. These search engines are automatically updated on a daily basis when the terminal is connected to the internet via the network or using 4G. It also has an embedded detection engine for BadUSB type attacks that are undetectable by traditional anti-virus software, which can take control of he computer. In addition, Malware Cleaner includes an admin platform to remotely manage the terminals. This allows to check they are running accurately and being updated, to receive usage statistics in real-time, find out the number of infected files and the types of attack detected. All this precious information helps to improve the company's cybersecurity.
Industry, an exposed sector "USB flash drives are a real danger for IT security within companies. Even if these attacks are more complicated to set up than attacks by e-mail, for example, they are nevertheless to be feared. Introducing USB flash drives into the heart of the company makes it possible to spread malicious code, paralyze machines, destroy sensitive data and even workstations. Ransomware can be installed on an industrial system simply by inserting a USB flash drive, with no need for the user to do anything at all," says Alexis Richard, Product Manager at Orange Cyberdefense. Best practices for USB flash drive use
About Orange Business Services (News - Alert) Learn more at www.orange-business.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and our blogs. Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with annual sales of 41 billion euros in 2017 and has 273 million customers in 29 countries at 31 December 2017. Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services Limited. 1 source: Ponemon Institute (News - Alert), 2014 View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180322005807/en/ |