The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook
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MEET THE SPONSORS<br />
AppGuard uses prevention to keep cyberattacks from<br />
harming businesses, government agencies<br />
When it comes to handling cyberattacks, a small Virginia-based<br />
company offers an innovative solution that<br />
borrows from an old adage: an ounce of prevention is<br />
worth a pound of cure.<br />
Blue Ridge Networks has been in the cybersecurity<br />
business for more than 15 years, offering its solutions<br />
to government agencies and businesses. Its AppGuard<br />
solution enables a client’s workforce to log in – even<br />
from remote locations – and know they will not be at<br />
risk of being infiltrated or inadvertently exposing their<br />
colleagues to a hack.<br />
AppGuard stops such destructive files as malware,<br />
ransomware, weaponized documents and phishing attempts<br />
from entering a user’s system. Those are the files<br />
used by hackers through a user’s trusted applications to<br />
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launch destructive cyberattacks.<br />
“AppGuard is the only solution<br />
on the market because it is not a<br />
detection capability,” said Mike<br />
Fumai, president and chief operating<br />
officer for Blue Ridge. “We’re<br />
blocking.”<br />
Cyberattacks are not like traditional<br />
robberies where the bad<br />
guys arrive in dramatic fashion and<br />
take their loot in one fell swoop.<br />
Instead, they get small bites – or<br />
Mike Fumai<br />
President and COO<br />
Blue Ridge Networks<br />
bytes, mind you – at a time, usually when routine events<br />
like reports are generated or updates are released. As<br />
the attacks linger for weeks and months because the file<br />
has not been detected, the little things begin to add up<br />
to huge losses for the victims.<br />
In the past year, the public has become more aware<br />
of the damage hackers can wreak. Millions of customers<br />
were affected by the attacks on such companies as<br />
Anthem, Home Depot and Target. In Target’s case, it was<br />
only discovered after customers called their banks and<br />
credit card companies to complain about fraudulent