Security
Is the door locked on your data?
Business plans, customer details, intellectual property, pricing, designs, passwords, ideas, employee details, company accounts. All of these equal company data and are stored on your IT network.
In today’s fiercely competitive world the value of your company data has never been higher and disturbingly it has never been easier to steal or lose.
When you need to be at your fittest to survive the current economic climate can you afford not to protect your data?
How often do we read about government departments losing laptops or USB devices containing confidential data that has ended up in the wrong hands? It may not be as newsworthy but it happens to businesses too.
We are all familiar with the concept of outsider attacks and hacking but with unemployment on the increase have you considered the risk of insider threats?
It is widely reported that there is a huge increase in the risk that ambitious or worried employees are stealing valuable data to strengthen their value to competitors. In these turbulent times disgruntled employees are also maliciously deleting important data for revenge.
Ipods, mobile phones, MP3 players, cameras, USB sticks, SD cards, laptops, PDAs, dictation handsets, CDs, DVDs, portable hard drives and email can all capture and transport company data easily.
Data can be transferred to all of these devices using simple technologies such as bluetooth, wireless, USB cables, memory cards and discs.
It’s so easy, it could be priceless, who has it, who could get it, how will they use it?
Here are a few statistics that show the scale of the risks:
- 6 out of every 10 employees stole company data when they left their job last year. (Source - BBC News 23/02/2009).
- Every 6 months over 55,000 mobile phones and 6,000 other devices, such as laptops, are left in the back of London black cabs alone. (Source - Computer Weekly Sept 2008 from surveys taken in 2004 and 2008).
- 50% of USB drives contain confidential information. (Source - IDC)
Taylor Made Computer Solutions can work with you to implement straightforward and cost effective security solutions to give you peace of mind.
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