The Basics: Information Security 101

How secure is your data? We live in the technology age where hackers try to infiltrate sensitive documents, data and other records without leaving a trace! Perhaps you should consider revamping your security.

Passwords

Protecting your data is as easy as setting a password. An industry standard is to change passwords every 90

days but it can be done sooner if you’re protecting highly sensitive data.

Firewalls

A firewall helps protect your network by controlling internet traffic entering and exiting

out of your company.

Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware

This type of software is your last line of defense because it’s considered the online security

essential.

Updates

If a program requests to be updated, allow it to be done. Updating helps keep the program up-to-date on the

latest security and continues to protect data. Updates can help your data virtualization software more

efficiently and effectively without eating up a lot of CPU.

Backups

Security and backups do play hand-in-hand because if your network and system crashes, you are in hot water. While backing up your files is a great idea, consider cloud based storage. Cloud security has

been heightened dramatically since its introduction!

Results

Just by instilling some simple security measures can vastly increase the protection of your

sensitive data. Consider cloud storage for easy access and ultimate protection!