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Multi-Layered Security
Imagine, while you are away at work, five
different individuals walk up to your front door
and checked to see if it is locked. What if you
forgot to lock it one day? Believe it or not it is
happening to your business right now. On average
hackers attempt to check your business security
five times a day.
In this day in age, security is an
ever-growing concern even for small businesses.
Broadband Internet connections like DSL, Cable,
ISDN, and T-1’s provide a valuable, and many times
necessary service to companies in today’s
“Information Age.” However, many off-the-shelf
solutions do not provide a sufficient level of
security to your critical data and network
resources.
Hackers have a
vast amount of tools at their disposal, which allow
them to accomplish all of these tasks. Most of these
tools are freely available to download from Internet.
Because many commonly known security solutions lack
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capabilities,
most intrusions go undetected. You may even have
security breaches to your system right now and even
now it. Companies spend millions dollars each year
attempting to recover from hacker activity. Now is
the time to protect yourself and minimize the
damages to you and your business.
Ok, so what can hackers do? Here is a
small list just for starters:
“Borrow”
financial information: credit cards, accounting,
banking information, etc….
Access customer databases
Intercept email and passwords
Corrupt data
Steal network resources
Deface WebPages
Shut you down
The first line of defense is to have a
strict security policy in place. This includes
things such as password management, user access
rights, and proactive system analysis. Security is
only as strong as your security policy. The next
line of defense is hardware/software technologies
such as routers, firewalls and various software
tools.
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