Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Importance Of Data Protection Services

By Marion Peters


Financial reports, memos, sales documents and information on new products are among the details generated by organizations on a day to day basis. Information touching on products and services is very important and should be protected using all available means. Given that new network vulnerabilities are discovered on a regular basis, it is important for firms to invest in data protection services.

New security threats are identified with each passing day. To stay ahead of crackers and hackers the organizations will need to stay proactive by implementing solutions that are innovative in nature. Such solutions should go beyond looking at denial of service attacks to coming up with programs that can be used to protect a firm against malware.

For a company, protecting its information will revolve around implementing a number of tasks. All company information must be indexed. When indexing, the details must be indexed in such a way that they can be easily searched.

In any firm, there are client details that are seen to be more sensitive than others. Identifying all the details that fall under this category will be very important. Having identified such details, the organization should now come up with intelligence briefings to deal with identification of risks.

Commissioning a comprehensive security assessment is done to achieve a certain set of objectives. Common objectives that are achieved through security assessments include risk reduction, reducing company exposure and liability. For this to happen security vulnerability testing must be done by network security experts on a regular basis.

Encryption is among the services provided by such experts. Through encryption, any information being sent or received through the company network is properly encoded. Encoding is done using a methodology that ensures that only company approved individuals may be able to decrypt the information packets.

User authentication should be centralized in order to further protect the firm. Through centralization, the administrators are able to identify who is assessing the company network, the location from where they are doing this and whether they have the necessary security clearance to be accessing the information. This therefore ensures that only company personnel can use the company resources.

Forensics is a service provided by data protection experts. It aims to establish whether there have been any violations of user policies by employees, theft of intellectual property and can also be used to gather evidence in cases of harassment or financial fraud. These experts can also be relied on when preparing legal cases to prove that information was indeed stolen.




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