CIO: 6 Ways to Defend Against Drive-by Downloads

Cybercriminals are increasingly using drive-by downloads to distribute malware without end users knowing something bad has just landed on their machine--until it's too late. Here are six ways IT departments can protect end users from the productivity sink and potential data loss that drive-by downloads create.

By Meridith Levinson
February 10, 2012

In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 Web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method cyber criminals use to install viruses and spyware, and otherwise take control of unsuspecting end-users' computers.

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