Archive for the ‘IT Security’ Category
Is total IT security possible?
A participant at one of my presentations this year requested I tell them how to achieve, verbatim, “Total protection from employees able to reach or steal client data from work or home.”
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Is IT security stifling innovation?
Let’s face it—Providing adequate IT security needs does indeed stifle innovation. How could anyone argue with that?
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IT security insurance
Do you carry insurance for IT security? Breaches can be costly. Insurance is just stepping up to meet this need.
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Copy machines store copies of your documents
When CBS ran the 5 minute video about how your copy machines hold copies of all the documents copied on their internal hard drives, many of you started asking questions.
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Executives – what vendor wants to connect?
More and more executives tell me, “We are moving to a new vendor to provide a service to us and they want to connect to our internal network.” Do you realize the dangers?
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Does bug spray stop viruses?
If someone told you household oil cures arthritis, or that butter heals burns, or installing anti-virus is all you need to be secure on your network, would you believe them?
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Is anti-virus obsolete?
The problem with anti-virus programs these days is that so many viruses come out every hour that anti-virus programs can hardly keep their list of virus signatures up to date. If your anti-virus program doesn’t know a virus is “bad” until hours after the virus arrived, you are still infected and it may be too late.
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Are vulnerability scans of your network helpful?
As part of the Foster Institute IT Security Assessments, we always offer to perform vulnerability assessments and they are indeed very helpful. Executives can help IT professionals overcome the negative effect to the results of a vulnerability scan…
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Thieves preying on your social media
ABC’s Good Morning America recently posted a video about a woman whose home was robbed after she announced on Facebook that she was leaving her home to go to a concert.
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