Hey The Madd Hatter is back, we have been talking about protecting our selfs how about protecting your company.
Just read this.
The next twelve months will be like a fair ground ride: rotation, uncertainty and
mild discomfort. The world of IT is spinning fast: cloud computing, data explosion,
consumerisation, tablet computers, social media, mobile and flexible working. These
changes challenge traditional views of IT.
The threat landscape is also changing. Individual hackers have been eclipsed by wellfunded,
inventive criminal gangs, zero-day exploits and ‘advanced persistent threats’.
They don’t care if your company is big or small, obscure or a household name.
With all this change, security isn’t less important. Quite the opposite. But now’s the time
to consider how you achieve it. These tips are a good place to start:
1. Look at what’s changed in the last year. Where is the weakest link in your security?
Did you open a new office? Hire new staff? Are people using new software or new
websites? Make a list and think about how it affects your security.
2. Review your policies and plans. Get out your security documents. Do they still make
sense? Are they up to date? Book up a meeting with HR, IT and people from different
‘coal face’ departments and review them together.
3. Do some refresher training. Rules don’t prevent ignorance but training does. Join
some employees on their induction or refresh security training. If you don’t do this
kind of training, ask your HR and IT people why not.
4. Stay standing. Check that your backup, continuity and archiving systems are working
and adequate. If not, or if you don’t have them, consider Email Continuity.cloud,
Enterprise Vault.cloud and Backup Exec.cloud.
5. Exploit social media with confidence. Sites like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are
increasingly important for business. But they also create new risks, such as shortened
URLs that link to malicious websites. Read our free white paper on Social Networking.
6. Unleash your employees. Flexible, free range employees are more productive than
deskbound battery workers . But are they safe? Look at cloud computing technology,
such as Endpoint Protection.cloud and Web Security for Roaming Users, which protect
users wherever they go online.
7. Embrace encryption. The Information Commissioner’s Office now has the power to
levy fines of up to £500,000. Check that you have policy-based email encryption to
make your company’s privacy policies stick.
8. Get ready for targeted attacks. One in 255 emails in November 2011 contained
some form of malware and one in 8,300 contained a targeted attack aimed at an
individual or company (a four-fold increase in less than a year). Read our free white
paper to learn more.
9. Consider the cloud. Everyday business applications are moving to the cloud, such as
CRM, Email and productivity applications. The same benefits apply to cloud-hosted
security such as Symantec.cloud according to our 55,000 customers.
10. Talk to Symantec.cloud. Find out how we can help you. Get a free trial of our
technology.
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