Case Study: 

Amsurg - Spyware On The Loose

Like many businesses, AmSurg Corporation has employees who use laptops on the road and then connect with the network when they return to the office. And like others, Am Surg has to contend with spyware that these laptops pick up elsewhere and bring back home.

Unchecked, spyware can slow down and render a computer virtually useless and can proliferate to other machines on the network. The IT department at AmSurg Corporation, a Nashville, Tennessee company that runs a national group of outpatient surgery centers, had been dealing with the problem reactively, repairing the machines when users complained about performance.