Intellectual property and other forms of data are subject to more forms of compromise now more than ever. Unfortunately, protection of your data is nothing software and/or hardware alone will prevent or fix. Computer, networks, and firewalls are just the beginning. How does a firewall prevent someone from placing a “post-it” on their monitor that has their network password written on it?
Have you performed a security audit for your organization recently?
Security audits are fundamentally very simple. Of course, if your organization is large with hundreds of workstations and a data center you can expect the audit to take more time. The protection of your data is proportional to the level of your care and not concern. Care is performing proactive analysis and concern is reactive. Reactive protection of your information is initiated due to an emergency. That is not security protection. In reality it is security malpractice. It requires your entire company to protect information.
The United States Secret Service and Verizon released the “2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.”* The statistics are alarming and the reality is it is all preventable. Obviously, if you are it is not your fault nor the your organizations necessarily. However, it is the responsibility of both all employees and management of the organization to protect what is yours.
Here are some points as follows:
- Misuse by the computer user categorically accounts for 48% of security breaches.
- Authentications credentials into IT resources (user name and ID) accounts for 23% of the type of breaches.
- Social interactions, or social engineering, categorically accounts for 28% of security breaches.
- Intellectual property accounts for 7% of the type of breaches
- Organized criminal groups were responsible for 85% of all stolen data last year.
The most sobering point in Verizon’s report experts found, “most breaches were considered avoidable if security basics had been followed. Only four percent of breaches assessed required difficult and expensive protective measures.”
Can you say your network is secure? Network security and computer services are not complete without an ongoing security policy. We offer you 24 plus years of information communication security experience. That does not mean a combination of 24 years.
Together we will assist you and address existing security policies and identify the weaknesses. Then we will “shore up” the weak areas and secure them. We will educate your staff through group or individual training to improve your social engineering policies. We will re-engineer your new secure social network.
You can obtain our security services offerings throughout the St Louis, St Charles, Chesterfield, St Peters, Lake Saint Louis, OFallon, Troy, St Paul, Harvester, Wentzville and Dardenne Prairie areas, MO.
* 2010 Data Breach Report From Verizon Business, U.S. Secret Service Offers New Cybercrime Insights
