The news media regularly reminds us of information security or network security breaches in business. While the largest compromises, such as TJX, receive the most attention and reporting, these breaches also can and do occur in small and medium sized businesses. The challenge for these small business is to adequately protect their information from compromise.
This can seem like a daunting tasks, especially if there are no dedicated information security staff within the organization. However, by taking a systematic and realistic approach to your information security, a small business can ensure a reasonable amount of protection.
Over the next few weeks, various practical ways you can secure your networks and information will be discussed. Subjects such as encryption, firewalls, patching, email, browsing, virus protection, and others will be discussed. The end result will be that you have a series of reasonable steps that you can implement in your small or medium business that will dramatically improve your security posture.
While I personally use a Macintosh computer and prefer it’s BSD underpinnings, there is no real value in getting into a flame-throwing contest about which OS is most secure. Much of the discussion in the following weeks will be Windows-centric, but you can know that Macintosh applications will also be addressed.
That’s all for now.
- Dan
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