Insurance agencies and brokers need to remain vigilant about their websites and potential malware attacks. They need a backup plan, a fallback plan, and they need to share website and email security best practices with all of their employees on an ongoing basis.

Malware is becoming more evasive and aggressive

There has been a huge increase in evasive malware behavior in the last year. Evasive malware tries to undermine traditional security technologies with new methods. New methods must continually be created to thwart these attacks. Make sure you are using a quality website security option that keeps your malware solutions up to date and cutting edge. Hosting providers like GoDaddy, 1&1, and many more offer a variety of malware and security monitoring and removal options. The advancement of malware is moving fast, and your insurance agency’s security solutions need to stay up-to-date and up-to-date.

Changed browser settings

All major browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari) have seen an increase in malware programs that can modify browser settings and important security-related proxy settings. Attackers are turning compromised systems into proxies so they can implement more malware injections. To help prevent this attack, never open unknown or questionable links, and train all employees to follow this important best practice.

Password guessing attacks

For this type of attack, the malware initiates the authentication process and uses common username and password combinations to attempt to gain access to a website and increase privileges. Brute force attacks are not new, but they are no longer contained to desktops. A recent study found that 53 popular mobile apps were vulnerable to password guessing attacks. Those vulnerabilities put around 600 million users at risk of being hacked. Always use unique and complex passwords to keep access to your site protected against this type of attack, and use a sophisticated password timeout option.

Enterprise-grade database leaks through the cloud

Cloud services have become a growing solution for businesses. This, in turn, has led to increased interest in exploiting cloud vulnerabilities. Awareness of the vulnerabilities and risks of storing business information in the cloud is not growing as fast as the sophistication of cloud attacks. As cloud data management becomes too unwieldy, new security vulnerabilities may be discovered. It is important that your agency uses reliable cloud-based solutions and that you follow the best practices above for all of your cloud-based applications.

If your agency lacks the internal resources required to maintain and update a secure insurance agency website, you may want to consider outsourcing this to a competent outsourced IT organization or insurance marketing agency that is proficient with insurance websites. .