An Introduction to Network Security

Network security is a necessity for all businesses and organizations using electronic devices. These devices allow data to be shared and accessed by many people and organizations, which currently numbers into the hundreds of millions. With this data, organizations are able to plan, send emails, interact with clients and customers, and undertake other activities that were once done only offline.

Having a secure network that is able to protect sensitive data is not something that is easily achieved. It requires a combination of a few different strategies to ensure that your network is able to protect your information.

Anti-Virus Programs

Many people tend to have the misconception that a virus is something that attacks and destroys your computer. In order for you to get a virus, you have to click a certain link, open up an email that contains a certain amount of files, or open up an attachment that is made to look like a company file. These emails will usually have a file that is attached that will normally ask you to open it in order to install a certain program in order to fix problems that the infected file may be inadvertently opening. While some of these infections may destroy your computer files, others may just harm your computer and make it unusable.

Since anti-virus software often comes with your computer, it is important to make sure that you have one. When given a thorough scan, it would easily find anything that is harmful to your computer. If you have one that is not so active, it may not be able to reach some files that are infected. You may think that your computer is safe now, but just one virus can put everything in danger.

Log Files

When you have many devices to track, it can become difficult to keep them organized. When logs are created, it is important to know which logs you should and should not read. It is best to only read the logs that arenecessary to have an accurate idea of what is going on. For example, if you have a monthly report due to your accounting software, you should notneed to read the reports for the previous months worth of logs.

Wireless Network Security

It is important to make sure that you have security on your wireless network. If you don’t, you will have hackers or other people that have full access to your local network and will thereby gain full access to the information that you have on that computer. Therefore, you should ensure that any wireless network you have is secure.

Software and Devices

Needless to say, you should not allow your laptop or other laptop-related device to run so that itabandits your hard drive. Since the idea of using something like Two Factor Authentication is still in its infancy, there are many things that we still don’t know about how to secure these devices. Although FBI has already issued guidelines recommending that businessesaddress the issue, we still don’t know how all the safeguards and two factors factor authentication working in conjunction will foxes.

Two factor authentication beginning to become a popular issue in the mainstream. The number of attacks on corporations is increasing and hackers are now targeting the laptop and mobile devices of employees. Both the employee and corporate users are now increasing concernedabout their use of mobile devices and whether or not these devices have the capability to maintain the same level of security whether from the employee’s side or the company’s side.

Individuals don’t have much concern about staying 100% safe online. However, companies and individuals must decide if the cost is worth it for them. Approximately 80% of all attacks begin with some type of malware that steals data. large corporations now employ specialiststo create malware that they can use to penetrate the network and then send back to their hackers.

Although hackers have been attacking large corporations for years, smaller companies are now taking large risks in order to keep their databases safe. In some cases, hackers Even use the devices to commit fraud.

lator notes:

It is reason enough for regular checks to be done to the devices to ensure that they are indeed secured.