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Five essential security measures to protect your business—no matter its size |
June 21, 2013
Paranoia—in small doses—is an excellent preventive medicine. If you think your business is too small to be a target for hackers, identity thieves, and similarly unsavory characters, you’re dangerously underestimating the value of your business.
IT security might seem to be a daunting prospect for a small business without an expert staff, a large budget, or expensive consultants, but you can take a number of easily implemented measures to lock down the personal computers your business relies on. Here are five simple security tips you should implement today.
Encrypt your hard drives
The first step is to implement full-disk encryption on each one of your company’s PCs. This step is crucial because system passwords alone offer no defense against hackers’ accessing the hard drive from another computer, or against someone’s attempts to clone its entire contents for off-site examination. In addition, recovering previously deleted files from an unencrypted storage device or disk image is a relatively trivial matter for an attacker or snoop.
Microsoft's BitLocker is an excellent disk-encryption tool that is included in Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8 Professional, and Windows 8 Ultimate.
Selectively encrypting sensitive folders or files works, too, but full-disk encryption is the best means of ensuring that every file is protected. Microsoft’s BitLocker is the gold standard for this task, thanks to its ease of use and the fact that it comes standard with the Ultimate and Enterprise versions of Windows 7, and with the Ultimate and Professional versions of Windows 8.
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