Computer Security Keeps My Enterprise Healthy

We have been talking in simple generalities involving cyber-security. Let's get into some specifics:
We have been discussing the absolutely vital importance of your cyber-security efforts for your computer systems, and have established that you are indeed facing an existential threat. Period.
How you react to it will determine if your enterprise maintains its healthy outlook. Or fades away.
Potential Distribution Vectors
Let's talk a little about what I call the Potential Distribution Vectors. Destructive malware does have the capability to target a large scope of your computer systems. The malware can potentially execute across multiple systems all through your network. Because of this, you will find it important for your enterprise to do a constant assessment of your computer systems looking for any atypical channels for potential malware delivery and even propagation throughout your systems.
Systems to Assess Include:
1. Enterprise Applications: Be especially watchful for those which have the capability to directly interface and impact multiple hosts along with their endpoints.
Common examples would include:
a. Patch Management Systems,
b. Asset management systems,
c. Remote Assistance software (which you will find normally utilized by the corporate help desk.)
d. Anti-Virus,
e. Systems assigned to system and network administrative personnel,
f. Centralized Backup Servers, and
g. Centralized File Shares.
While you might not find these particularly applicable to malware as a threat, it still could compromise additional of your resources in order to impact the availability of critical data and applications. Common examples you will find:
2. Centralized Storage Devices: Potential Risk is direct assess to partitions and data warehouses.
3. Network Devices: Potential Risk: the capability to inject false routes within your routing table, or even deleting specific routes from the routing table, not to mention the capability to isolate or even degrade availability of critical network resources.
Before we leave the subject, let's discuss a little about these networks to prevent any confusion.
Always keep in mind that not all computer networks are the same and sometimes they are wildly dissimilar. For example, the network I use to link a laptop to my wireless router, my wireless printer, and all the other equipment is the smallest you can imagine. It is an example of what is called a "personal area network (PAN). This is especially convenient for my own personal one person network. Perhaps you work in an office with a few separate computers that are linked to one or two printers, maybe a scanner and possibly a single, shared connection to the Internet.

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