Open a newspaper any given day and you’ll read stories of companies being attacked by cybercriminals. Data breaches are rampant. Banker Trojans are stealing online-banking credentials, resulting in massive financial losses. In 2010, CSO Magazine conducted the Cyber Security Watch Survey. Senior Editor Bill Brenner states “Even those companies making sizable efforts to keep their data secure admit it’s almost impossible to outpace the bad guys.”

It’s a war out there, a war against cybercriminals who have one goal in mind – making money by targeting a company’s endpoints. Today’s cybercriminals are perpetually after data that can be easily converted into profit or credentials that will allow them to transfer money directly from the company coffers.

In this article we’ll discuss the growing malware threat, how cybercriminals are targeting the endpoint, and how you can protect your endpoints from these malicious activities.