Firms will have to run to stand still if they are to protect their assets and those of their customers. The FSA said that while larger enterprises had built defences to protect against hacking threats, small to medium-sized businesses were likely...
The biggest barrier to cross, in order to get SMBs to better protect their IT and data assets, is lack of resources. But they could do a better job of safeguarding their data and IT assets. You can read about other steps SMBs could be taking to...
These costs need to be justified, based on the expected exposure of those assets to different forms of risk, an evaluation of how likely or unlikely the risk might be in practice, and an assessment of how much the measures can do to protect those...
The government also has policies to protect data assets with encryption products that have been approved by GCHQ. The UK government has suffered at least 122 computer thefts this year. The Home Office was hit hardest of all government departments...
Day said: "In terms of what's the biggest threat on the LAN at the moment I think it is control of what comes into your network - recognising what are the assets people are plugging into your network and asking whether they should be there.
To protect against this, enterprises need to use security such as intrusion prevention systems and have a well-segmented network using VLANs. To demonstrate the potential danger that enterprises with unsecured VoIP systems face, the Voice over IP...