Archive - November 2000
Preventing the data breach: A dozen steps to protect against data loss
Losing data can be tremendously devastating to a company. It could compromise security, information, and jobs. Today, we will look at twelve actions that a company can take to mitigate the risks of a data breach. These twelve steps, performing a risk analysis, asset identification and classification, attention to detail, encryption, social networking, compliance, management of personnel, least privilege, solution diversity, tracking mobile devices, data destruction and testing are essential to helping a company’s security program.
The Social Networking Threat
Social Networking is a godsend and a concern, a help and a hindrance, an amazing feat and a terrible nuisance. While these descriptors apply for the individual, they are exacerbated multiple times for a corporation. A corporation needs to be concerned with everything from profits to people, and social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, or the new Googleplus among others have tremendous impact on how a corporation looks at its priority list. Certain facets of social networking can be beneficial to businesses, for example social networking provides a business with free publicity. In addition to publicity, social networking allows a business to expand into new markets and different demographics. Though networking brings many new possible clients and expands a business, it can also be riddled with potential pitfalls. For example, a business can divulge too much information via social networking. Also, privacy on sites like Facebook can be a little suspect, and thus put important corporate information at risk.
