Miles Technologies Delivers Proactive IT Planning, Monitoring To Ensure Businesses Operations

MOORESTOWN, N.J. - July 2, 2013 - PRLog -- MOORESTOWN, NJ (JULY 2, 2013) – Whether a small or large business, detecting a breach in your organization requires sophisticated technology, processes, planning and support in order to assure early detection and containment.

Today, network attacks are inevitable risks for all businesses. How to react? Companies should devote more time and effort to detection and remediation; preventing attacks from becoming breaches, and breaches resulting in financial and reputational disasters, cautions Chris Miles, CEO of Miles Technologies, a leading IT, business software, website solution and online marketing firm.

Recently, Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report revealed the following:

• An alarming 76 percent of network intrusions exploited weak or stolen credentials. Strict policies are required to reduce this easily preventable risk.

• Over half of the insiders committing sabotage were former employees taking advantage of old accounts or backdoors that were not disabled.

• Over 70 percent of IP theft cases committed by internal people took place within 30 days of them announcing their resignation. Approximately 78 percent of the methods attackers used were low levels of sophistication.

• Social tactics — using email, phone calls and social networks to gain information on individuals — are often ignored, but contributed to 29 percent of attacks.

•  Of the 52 percent of breaches that involved some form of hacking, 80 percent involved guessing, cracking, or reusing valid credentials. The particular type of attack can vary depending on the size of the organization: smaller organizations tend to have more “brute force” attacks on authentication while larger organizations have more stolen credentials used against them.

“While the sophistication of attacks is growing, most breaches could still be easily prevented,” Miles reports. “Our approach to IT and network security at Miles Technologies is designed to address these issues through proactive planning, constant monitoring and responsiveness, and a comprehensive method of deterring social attacks."

Miles Technologies specializes in a variety of IT security services including:

• Network Monitoring
• Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
• Code Development and Analysis
• Compliance Testing
• Physical Security Systems

“Our focus is on providing businesses with IT and other technology solutions that help organizations cut costs and become more efficient, productive, and profitable,” Miles states. “When discussing the importance of information security we’ve probably heard companies tell us “we’re too small to be a target” or “we don’t have anything of value”, but if there is one lesson this report can drive home it is the reality that security breaches can and do occur in organizations of all sizes and across a large number of industries.”

To learn more about Miles Technologies IT services, including managed IT service plans, IT support, computer networking, cloud services, security solutions, backup and disaster recovery and virtualization, visit http://www.milestechnologies.com/it.

To speak with a Miles Technologies IT specialist, call (800) 496-8001.

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Founded in 1997, Miles Technologies of Moorestown, NJ, provides Information Technology (IT), business software, web and graphic design and online marketing services to organizations of all sizes and from all industries. Today, Miles Technologies provides these cutting-edge technology services to more than 1,800 customers nationwide.

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