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(Emsisoft) New in 2019.8: One-click network lockdown
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 832586"><p>It's really a useless feature right now. By the time any user shuts anything down the damage is probably already done. Routers like Gryphon can instantly block the internet from any infected/suspicious device/IoT on a network, which is superior to this. I suppose other routers also do it. This actually looks like Emsisoft is pushing toward something like WhitelistCloud from VoodooShield, as it does this, but is automated on unclassified/unknown file activity.</p><p></p><p>There is a good bit of security to be gained by having a method to slice off the internet. Whether that method is a hardware or software switch, generally speaking, your NIC should be severed from the LAN/WAN unless explicitly needed. I used to work at a location I won't mention. We had dead-man-switches on every system. If you didn't push a button every 30 minutes your system was totally disconnected and isolated from the LAN/WAN.</p><p></p><p>Right now I use a software method to sever the lan/wan from connectivity when the systems are sleeping/locked/shutoff/hibernating.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.wirelessautoswitch.com/Blog/tabid/122/entryid/14/Wireless-AutoOff.aspx[/URL]</p><p>You can edit the text file config for Wireless-AutoOff and add your wired NIC into it to control them. That way, until I click the icon on the desktop there won't be any active internet connection. If I walk away and the system locks, the internet connection will drop with it.</p><p></p><p>It's good that Emsisoft added this, but it would be improved with the following features;</p><p></p><p>1) Option to completely block all application/os traffic if the system is locked. After X amount of time of inactivity, etc.</p><p>2) Auto-Block of unclassified, unknown, potentially harmful applications until released/quantified.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 832586"] It's really a useless feature right now. By the time any user shuts anything down the damage is probably already done. Routers like Gryphon can instantly block the internet from any infected/suspicious device/IoT on a network, which is superior to this. I suppose other routers also do it. This actually looks like Emsisoft is pushing toward something like WhitelistCloud from VoodooShield, as it does this, but is automated on unclassified/unknown file activity. There is a good bit of security to be gained by having a method to slice off the internet. Whether that method is a hardware or software switch, generally speaking, your NIC should be severed from the LAN/WAN unless explicitly needed. I used to work at a location I won't mention. We had dead-man-switches on every system. If you didn't push a button every 30 minutes your system was totally disconnected and isolated from the LAN/WAN. Right now I use a software method to sever the lan/wan from connectivity when the systems are sleeping/locked/shutoff/hibernating. [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.wirelessautoswitch.com/Blog/tabid/122/entryid/14/Wireless-AutoOff.aspx[/URL] You can edit the text file config for Wireless-AutoOff and add your wired NIC into it to control them. That way, until I click the icon on the desktop there won't be any active internet connection. If I walk away and the system locks, the internet connection will drop with it. It's good that Emsisoft added this, but it would be improved with the following features; 1) Option to completely block all application/os traffic if the system is locked. After X amount of time of inactivity, etc. 2) Auto-Block of unclassified, unknown, potentially harmful applications until released/quantified. [/QUOTE]
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