ÚVT Security

Users of networks connected to the secure core of ÚVT Internet can feel safe. For many years, ÚVT Internet has used a top-class security product from the company Whalebone to protect communications within its network.

When designing our security solution, we use a combination of many measures, some of which we will naturally not describe in detail. What we can describe is the combination of the Whalebone security solution with a connection to the higher layers of the internet via trusted networks taking part in the Fénix project of the NIX.cz association.

The internet is full of threats

The internet is an open environment in which everyone can communicate with everyone else. Organised groups and individuals with bad intentions take advantage of this. Criminals try to obtain data, insert harmful software, or use ordinary users’ devices as intermediaries for illegal activities on a completely different device. Hackers also try to take control of home networks so that they can use them to secretly spread their code across the world. There are many threats, but malware needs to communicate out of the infected network. It wants to take control of our networks and communicate from them. That is its weakness. Literally every communication from a network must pass through the provider’s Domain Name Server (DNS), which is why we recommend not changing the settings of the ÚVT Internet network.

DNS is a kind of telephone directory that translates the names of websites into a numerical format for communication on the network, and so makes it possible to find the way to the target servers, for example Facebook.com. This is the weak point for attackers, who need the DNS server to let their malware communicate with them. Thanks to its connection with the Whalebone Peacemaker solution, the UVT Security product has real-time knowledge of all harmful destinations on the internet, and makes it impossible for criminals to communicate with their “agents” in the form of harmful software. In this way we eliminate the threat of a hard disk being encrypted by known types of ransomware, and protect against the theft of credit card data or the interception of login details for online banking or email accounts.

TIP – you can read about security risks in an earlier article: Cloud services and security risks 

Home appliances are at risk too

Thanks to ÚVT Security, we also protect devices that you would never think need protection. These include games consoles, weather stations, smartwatches, thermostatic radiator valves, fridges, home routers, IP cameras... Anything connected to the internet can be infected with malware. Devices that cannot have any antivirus protection, which as responsible users of electronic services you certainly have on your home computers, are at risk too.

ÚVT Security requires no installation. Every user of our network who uses our company’s DNS server is protected by the Whalebone system, which is based on artificial intelligence principles and connected to the entire security community.

The statistics speak clearly about the danger; in just two weeks, ÚVT Security blocked:

• 305,382 attempts to communicate with Command & Control servers. C&C servers are computer systems infected and controlled by attackers.
• 787,838 attempts to communicate with demonstrably fraudulent domains, and
• 2,258,186 communications with dangerous domains. Almost 2% of all communication requests from devices connected to the ÚVT Internet network are demonstrably harmful. Your data is safe with us.