FAQs
What is Fields Click & Protect™ ?
What's so beneficial about Fields Click & Protect™ ?
Why should I bother to use Fields Click & Protect™ when I've got firewalls, anti-virus tools etc?
I get security updates from Microsoft. Why is this not sufficient?
I've never needed to take measures to protect my data from Cyber Crime. Why should I start now?
Isn't Fields Click & Protect™ just another fancy port scanner?
How quickly can Fields Click & Protect™ respond to a new threat?
Hackers, crackers and malicious attackers
What is Fields Click & Protect™ ?
Fields Click & Protect™ is a groundbreaking Information Security application that helps stop Cyber Criminals from illegally hacking into your computer system and gaining access to sensitive, valuable data.
Fields Click & Protect™ examines the exposure of your computer systems and identifies where there are chinks in the armour, e.g. incorrect firewall configuration, security vulnerabilities caused due to application or operating system updates, literally any security hole that a malicious attacker may use to gain access to your system, regardless of your operating system or configuration.
What's so beneficial about Fields Click & Protect™ ?
The Fields Click & Protect™ technology has only previously been available to large corporate organisations employing costly security consultants and services. Fields Click & Protect™ has automated the process of exposure management making it easy for system managers to administer security services themselves.
Why should I bother to use Fields Click & Protect™ when I've got firewalls, anti-virus tools etc?
Firewalls and AV are excellent at preventing unauthorised access from automated threats such as trojans, viruses, worms etc. What they don't do is deter the determined attacker - a real person who delights in being able to "crack" the security on a system. Fields Click & Protect™ exposes chinks in the armour where your existing security software has failed to protect you. These security breaches are often caused by seemingly innocent events such as upgrades and software patches. Fields Click & Protect™ gives you the ability to locate and repair these security breaches thus denying the attacker the opportunity to gain access to your system and causing them to wreak havoc.
I get security updates from Microsoft. Why is this not sufficient?
Microsoft security updates are designed to maximize the security robustness of the Microsoft Windows operating system and nothing else. Apart from making your computer more secure (but not necessarily less exposed) these updates also protect Microsoft from repercussions from its client base. Either way, they do not guarantee an exposure-free system. Also, contrary to popular belief, not all data is held on Microsoft based computers. Most commercial business applications that run in today's non-stop 24 x 7 x 365 computing environment use other operating systems such as UNIX and LINUX to maintain their online trading presence. Fields Click & Protect™ is platform independent and protects all types of computer system regardless of operating system.
I've never needed to take measures to protect my data from Cyber Crime. Why should I start now?
Ten years ago, automated viruses were a serious problem and were regarded as the main threat to the availability of a computer system. However, not everyone recognised the seriousness of this threat and were happy to trust to luck without the help of anti-virus software.
This threat spurned the development of anti-virus software products that, although fairly basic to begin with, highly technical to use and expensive to buy, are today commonplace, inexpensive and available to everyone.
Today we hear of more and more instances of illegal hack attempts but we believe the solutions we developed to protect us from viruses and other automated threats will also protect us from malicious attackers. This is not the case. The "Badguyz" know this and delight in not only bringing down computer systems but on many occasions, profit from identity theft, and access and control of our data.
This newer threat has deeper and potentially more dangerous consequences than an automated threat and the resource and technology available to deter these attackers has not previously been available to the mass market. Fields Click & Protect™ gives users at all levels the ability to repel these cyber criminals.
Isn't Fields Click & Protect™ just another fancy port scanner?
No! Although the scanning of ports is the starting point of Fields Click & Protect™ the difference is that where a port scanner will scan a target port in order to see what ports are open and what services that are running, Fields Click & Protect™ scans all known ports for every service and checks them against every known vulnerability or exposure. Port scanners just tell you what's there, but Fields Click & Protect™ conducts a complete security exposure profile and offers the user the fixes to close security holes.
I don't like the idea of someone examining my computer systems. How can I be sure that exposure data doesn't get into the wrong hands?
Fields Click & Protect™ is fully automated. There are no consultants or third parties involved to view your reports. Each time you deploy Fields Click & Protect™ the results are sent to you directly without scrutiny from a third party. Fields Click & Protect™ is completely confidential and is like having your own internal IT security team do the job.
How quickly can Fields Click & Protect™ respond to a new threat?
Fields Click & Protect™ vulnerability tables are updated daily from a "tried and tested" worldwide online community of good (and bad) guys, security institutions, government agencies and universities. Fields Click & Protect™ subscribes to all these resources and updates its vulnerability database as soon as a new threat comes to light.
Why should I use Fields Click & Protect™ and not the competition?
There are a number of services that scan for vulnerabilities but no other application like Fields Click & Protect™ . Our scan engine is comparable in performance, capability and scaleability to any other scan engine in existence but our application and user interface is second to none for the price. The combination of these technologies allows Fields Click & Protect™ to deliver previous elite security services to the mass market.
Analogously, Fields Click & Protect™ has done for Information Security what eBay did for auctions. Before the emergence of eBay, an elite community of professionals, such as Sotheby's, Philips and Christies etc, conducted auctions, and they were expensive. eBay shifted the power base from the elite to the mass market and gave low cost auction facilities to everyone. Fields Click & Protect™ shifts the power base from the elite security professionals and gives it to everyone to manage their own Internet exposure and protect their assets.
Hackers, crackers and malicious attackers
Although the term "hacker" has come to refer to a 'computer vandal' or 'one who breaks, unauthorised, into other peoples' computer systems' in the popular media, it does not have such negative connotations in computer circles. Rather, a "hacker" has traditionally meant a computer programmer of breathtaking technical and creative proficiency.
The bad guys are the "crackers" and "malicious attackers" but these guys aren't generally locked away in darkened rooms like Neo from the Matrix. They are becoming far more organised and are finding new ways to make money from cyber crime.
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