0It's often difficult to convince business owners that computer security is a real problem and a real threat to their business and livelihood. Too often, business owners are only convinced that they need to actively address computer security only when their network has been hacked and they've lost time, money, their data or all three.
Anyway, I highly recommend you check out the documentary when you get a moment. You can watch it online.
Here's a quick network security checklist too that will help you quickly assess how secure or well protected your network is:
- Do all staff have unique passwords that expire or are changed regularly?
- Are all your business PCs running antivirus software that has a current subscription and can be managed from a central location?
- Do you have email spam filtering that also protects you against viruses that also sits outside your network?
- Does your server have antivirus software installed?
- Do you run nightly backups of your company data?
- Is your backup media regularly taken offsite to protect against fire and theft?
- Do you have multiple backup methods to provide protection in cases where the primary method fails?
- Is your wireless network at home & work encrypted?
- Do you use unique passwords for various online services you access regularly?
- Are you staff storing data on the server or is it sitting on their laptops or desktops where it's not regularly backed up?
- Is your network protected behind a business grade firewall with UTM (unified threat management) to protect you against trojans, spyware & phishing?
- Does your IT provider perform regular server, network & IT maintenance to ensure systems are running in peak condition and are not vulnerable to attack?
- Do you regularly apply security updates on your PCs & Servers?
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Four Corners IT Security Documentary