As a small business manager, have you thought about the importance of security policies that outline what your employees can and cannot do on company computers? After all, there is a real insider threat you cannot ignore. When all else fails, you've got an incident response situation on your hands. Interestingly, all three things are often overlooked — sometimes intentionally.
What you do to prevent security problems in advance and how you react after they crop up? Based on my experience, the former is much easier and cheaper than the latter.
My recent articles on these topics will help educate you about computer security so you can focus on what you do best. Check out the following links for insight and advice on how you can proactively manage policies, insider threats and security incident response:
Security policy oversights and mistakes we keep making
The real deal with internal security threats
Lack of incident response plan leaves hole in compliance strategy
Incident response – the often overlooked component of business continuity
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