Networks, systems, and software are vital to the success of your business, so it is very important to ensure their security.
People who want unauthorized access to information target corporate networks, using tools that help them find vulnerabilities.
In this article, we'll look at some steps you can take to help protect your company's network, systems, and software.
How to Control Access, Encryption, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Split Networks
1- The controls for accessing your business network.
The first step is to make sure that employees can only access the devices that are relevant to their tasks.
Make sure that these devices include only the services or applications that the employee needs.
For example, a business might decide that salespeople should be given access to inventory records but not payroll data.
Since unauthorized access occurs when employees share login information, you can take practical measures to allow them temporary and limited access to the data, so that a single employee can act on behalf of a colleague without jeopardizing the company's security.
To keep information confidential, you can encode data stored on any device or service. Coding helps ensure that only authorized users can access the information.
If you send data from one place to another, whether over the Internet or through your own network, we recommend that you also encode this data to prevent unauthorized people from accessing and reading it.
Of course, unauthorized access to information puts the security of any network at risk, but there are steps you can take to help protect your online business data.
2- Wi-Fi passwords
Let's look at some examples. Wi-Fi passwords are one of the most common vulnerabilities in any company's internal networks.
New wireless routers are usually provided with automatic passwords, so we recommend that you change the router password and replace it with one that is difficult for unauthorized users to guess.
3- Network segmentation
It is the division of a computer network into smaller networks, or subnets, and their separation from each other. Each subnet can contain a group of systems or applications.
For example, you can use a subnet for inventory control systems, and another subnet for payroll systems.
Segmentation of systems in this way helps isolate information thus ensuring that only systems networks are visited to access the necessary information.
See: How to Control Your Personal Use of Technology
How asset warehouse management helps improve your company's online security
To ensure that all of your policies and the controls you use cover all the hardware, software, and systems in your business, you can create a registry of your company's digital assets.
Start by identifying the digital elements in your company.
- What platforms, tools and software do you use?
- Is it up to date?
- What accounts do you use?
- What devices do you use?
- Who uses your hardware and software?
Make sure to include suppliers and customers as well, as well as employees. Answering these questions will help you identify and establish a history of your online assets.
This is the first step towards improving the security of your online business. You may discover that some software is out of date, which can be attractive to anyone trying to access your information in an unauthorized manner.
Identifying and updating or uninstalling these programs can help reduce any threats to your business' security.
The usefulness of a detection and response plan in the event of a security breach
It is also important to prepare a proactive plan if a security issue is detected or a potential problem is reported to an employee, vendor, or security professional.
The intrusion response plan outlines who is responsible and what actions to take in the event of unauthorized access to sensitive or confidential data , or stolen.
This response plan aims to protect the assets of the business by ensuring that necessary measures are taken quickly when a problem arises.
Take the time to prepare your proactive plan, so you and everyone else in your business know what steps to take in the event of a security issue, such as a data breach.
In short, taking proactive steps to maintain your company's systems is an effective measure to reduce unauthorized access to data.
Ensure that you are always fully prepared by preparing a clear plan to respond to any problem that may arise.