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Systems Security Management: Small Business Style “So you’ve got a handful of Microsoft® Windows servers and another few handfuls of Microsoft® Windows workstations. Security management and administration should not be all that difficult … right?” Unfortunately, that was only one of many hats I had to wear on a weekly, often daily basis.
By Nathaniel Dean, 07/08/2004
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The Computer Security Threat to Small and Medium Sized Businesses -A Manager's Primer This paper seeks to provide non-technical, easily understood, information for the business executive seeking to capitalize on the benefits provided by Internet access while at the same time protecting his internal network from viruses and hackers.
By Michael A. Regan, 04/30/2004
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Why Small Businesses Need to Secure Their Computers (and How to Do it!) I'm here to talk to you about computer security - and I don't mean just locking it up in a closet! I'm talking about making sure that the information you keep on your computer(s) is safe, that the only people who see that information are your employees, and making sure that the information is available when they need it. I'm also talking about making sure that no one (make that no hacker) is using your computer to do things that you don't know about.
By Bruce Diamond, 04/30/2004
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Security for Small and New IT Departments: Get Your Big Rocks In First With today's shortage of competent professionals in the information systems industry, many of us find ourselves wearing many hats in our company's IS department. Often times we are faced with the challenge of having to fulfill roles of System and Network Administrator, DBA, hardware specialist, application specialist, helpdesk operator and security officer all in the space of a few hours within a single day.
By Greg Rolling, 04/25/2004
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Introducing Security to the Small Business Enterprise This discussion paper outlines the issues and constraints that a SBE faces, the common misconceptions managers have regarding Internet security, and how to introduce security to the Small Business Enterprise.
By Jeff Herbert, 04/23/2004
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Information Security For Churches and Small Non-Profit Organizations In today's ever changing, better, faster, cheaper world, connectivity to the Internet for churches and other small non-profit organizations is necessary. But, connectivity brings along with it a risk of vulnerability from the same threats that business and educational organizations face. Hackers and other harm-doers will not make an exception for these low budgeted and resource strapped organizations, and if an opportunity is found that can be exploited, you can bet someone, somewhere will exploit it.
By Jay Petel, 04/20/2004
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Security Problems for Small Companies A growing problem in our technologically advanced society is the increase in security related issues for small to medium sized companies. Government regulations now require financial, health care and many other types of industries to meet stringent security requirements and many of the smaller companies are struggling to meet them. With the increase in security related incidents over the past few years, companies are struggling to maintain a secure network infrastructure. Internally they often lack the staff and resources to secure their IT assets and therefore struggle to preserve a secure network. This is causing small businesses to become a security hole themselves because many hackers attack them because of the low security that most companies have and then launch bigger attacks on larger organizations.
By Jeremy M. Klomp, 04/14/2004
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Securing Electronic Mail in a Small Company Electronic mail has become a de facto standard for business communications. Companies, big and small, depend on email for their day to day operations, even though electronic mail is plagued with numerous security problems. Email might be read in transit. Messages may be altered or dropped by intermediate servers. Mail boxes are effectively unprotected with sniffable passwords. Yet people use email because it's convenient. While numerous approaches and protocol enhancements have been proposed to reduce security risks in email communications, no comprehensive solution exists. This paper presents a typical email configuration of a small company, the associated vulnerabilities, and demonstrates how free open source tools help reduce the risks.
By Nikolai N. Fetissov, 04/05/2004
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Small-site Information Security on a (very loose) shoestring a case study This paper will describe one such smaller company and the state I found it in when I joined it. This will be followed by a review of corrective actions (and their limitations) that significantly enhanced the overall security posture. This was accomplished while working with management attitudes that did not generally hold information security at a high value in the day-to-day activities of the company. Corrective work was done over a period of about a year, by the end of which many improvements had been realized. More importantly, the management team at this site was much better educated in the value of information security and had become willing to invest some limited resources in security activities.
04/03/2004
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Internet Security and Your Business - Knowing the Risks Internet security can be defined as the protection of data from theft, loss or unauthorized access, use or modification. With the constantly evolving nature of the Internet, it is vital that users continuously protect themselves and their information. This issue is so important that many large firms employ full-time security experts or analysts to maintain network security. However, few, if any, home and small business owners can afford that luxury. Therefore it is up to small-office users to take these issues into their own hands.
By Joe Jenkins, 03/20/2004
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