If you go to a doctor for advice about your health, he will undoubtedly tell you prevention is better than cure. Precisely the same thing can be said of computer viruses and malicious attacks. The price to pay can be much, much more than the initial cost to prevent it. As with all businesses, the capital outlay has to be concerned with the rise of the business. Invest too little, and you might get breached. Investing too much also makes no sense. You will intimately be faced with a choice between remediation, proactive prevention or the optimum, a sufficient balance between the two.

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Remediation is the process of correcting errors and system changes. Removing threats from the infected computer system may be necessary. These malicious threats would have bypassed your existing essential security measures. They start causing damage immediately and irreparably. The objective of remediation is to negate risks before they cause any extended or widespread damage.