Posts Tagged ‘IT Security’
Is video best for Security Awareness Training?
So you realize you need to require Security Awareness Training for everyone in your organization in order to help increase your IT security. What is the best way to deliver that training? Live training? Computer based learning? Videos?
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Old-school anti-virus is no longer the best protection
Anti-virus sounds like a great feature, right? But anti-virus can be ineffective in fighting newer threats.
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Cloud computing problems and concerns
Just how important is “moving to the cloud” for your organization?
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Is defense indepth that good?
Many IT departments tell their executives that having multiple firewalls, anti-virus protection, VPN’s, etc. are all you need for security. How does a firewall help you if the attack comes from inside your perimeter?
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Rogue WiFi access points can cost you a great deal of money
During a recent IT and physical security audit, we found three wireless access points within a facility that were both:
- Insecure providing wide open access to whoever wanted to attach and
- unknown to the IT professionals at the facility.
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Should you block your employees from accessing social media?
In the past, I’ve been known to instruct companies to block all employees from social media. Times are changing.
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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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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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