Forbes:
While a lot of security technologies come with impressive price tags, there are some fairly inexpensive things you can do to make your enterprise more secure. We skipped the obvious choices, like creating more complicated passwords and not leaving the door to the building or the server room open. The experts gave us suggestions that ranged from using digital signatures on all sent e-mail to what to not allow into the system.
‘One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think they can’t afford to make any changes so they bury their heads in the sand,’ said Brian Dykstra a senior partner with Maryland-based Jones, Rose, Dykstra & Associates, a computer security and training company. ‘That almost always leads to a bad situation.’
Here are 5 cheap, effective security strategies:
1. Periodically check for rogue wireless access points in corporate buildings.
2. Enable Windows Update on all computers.
3. Don’t allow HTML e-mail through.
4. Consider using Mozilla Foundation’s Thunderbird and Firefox as possible alternatives to Outlook and Internet Explorer.
5. Training - whether for users or the IT staff - pays off in the long run. Full article.
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