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Understanding the Virus Threat and Developing Effective Anti-Virus Policy

According to recent ICSA statistics, your company was over 99% likely to be confronted with the threat of a virus infection in the year 2000, over 50% of which could be classified as a virus disaster. Was your company prepared to deal with this threat? This paper focuses on providing the reader with an overview of the current virus landscape and aids in developing best practice anti-virus policies. After presenting the threat, we'll introduce you to today's most popular anti-virus tools. Using your knowledge of the threat and of the solutions will help you manage the risk of infection, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems and data and minimize the cost of reactive management in case your proactive measures fail.

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11 Mar 2002
ByFrank Zipfel
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