Posts Tagged ‘network security’
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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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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Do we need more government regulation?
Banks suggest you dedicate one PC for online banking
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Executives say it is hard to enforce IT policies
I see this all the time. Executives say “we do not restrict our users from going to inappropriate web sites” or “we do not force our employees to change passwords—some have had the same password for 10 years.”
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Prepare for users working from home during Swine Flu
There is concern about the Swine Flu causing problems this fall. Will your workers be able to work from home? The government web site about the Swine Flu is http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
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What? CEO’s, executives and business owners are protecting their network with a cheap home based firewall?
Any successful business professional can become the target of people wishing to do them harm. Why would a business professional trust their family’s safety to a $30 home level router when they can get a much better firewall for less than $100? And a great one for less than $300? How much is your family’s security worth to you? Executives and owners always ask which is the best one to get at home.
Do you connect to other networks besides your own? At someone else’s office, a hot spot, coffee shop, airport, or hotel?
When you connect to someone else’s network, you are possibly opening yourself up to attack from other computers on that network. The other computer owner’s may have no idea that their computer is even infected or that it will attempt to attack your machine. You also open yourself up to liability issues if your computer is suspected of infecting the other network to which you are attaching. The easiest solution is:
We never had a virus before, so I always thought our IT security must be A-OK!
A common frustration from CEO’s, executives, and business owners who suffer a loss from a virus is they “thought everything was ok” since “they never had a problem before now.”
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Think you’re secure? See how easily you can be hacked.
I’ve been demonstrating hacking in my presentations, and in response to many requests, the video is now available of the hacking session. Watch the hacking demonstration video below.
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