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>There are several different platforms out there that can shut a machine off if it becomes infected, and then keep all the other machines safe from the machine
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
>There are several different platforms out there that can shut a machine off if it becomes infected, and then keep all the other machines safe from the machine that is infected... Ramos said this is the type of software the county purchased after the attack, to protect the county’s server
So I'm not an expert by any means, but I can't picture how that is an effective protection. Either the detection can catch it before infection, in which case why shut down? Or it catches it after infection when it could have already spread.
Setting up that last backup sounds like a better use of money.
- dmix 4y agoYeah it sounds like a glorified manual kill switch, I doubt it’s automated in a meaningful way. If it was it’d be easy to bypass unless they figured out phishing AV and are keeping it a secret. But I guess they thought it was worth buying to appease the public.