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SOHO: Cost Effective Techniques for Protecting Your Data |
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Source: InfoSec Writers - Posted by Eric Lubow
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The information security headlines are strewn with literally scores of articles about breaches in corporate or government security. Data being destroyed, systems taken down for days and stolen information are amongst the highlights of news snippets you can easily find. It is silly to play office armchair hypocrite and try to act as if your network is a fortress of impenetrable devices but you would only be fooling yourself. Our discussion delves into a very important area of our concern where information security might merely be an illusion or a passing thought, the arena of the small office home office (SOHO). SOHO is a huge market filled with bright, hard working families and entrepreneurs, that often have little clue as to the big information security picture but regularly collect extremely important and sensitive data. Examples of the types of situations that might be found though not limited to these examples include the family that home schools their children.
Tons of data is generated as the children are schooled but what type of defenses are in place from both inside and outside attacks to items stored on the home PC. The accountant that runs a home based office. By day he/she goes about collecting data from other businesses and keeping the books on the home PC but of course there are children and they also have access to the PC while the accounting is not being done. The medical coder often is a home worker. They receive tons of projects that must be coded for physicians and various medical centers. There are numerous issues and HIPPA violations looking this home worker right in the happy to have a job face if that data gets into the wrong hands even by accident. So the point being, that everywhere we turn in the home PC world an opportunity arises to better our grasp on network and data security by practical means. More than just an introduction into SOHO security, here is a guideline to help you, the home-based business person, to look at your network and take some action. The concept of information security is not just the discussion offered here, included are some of the nuts and bolts of how-to secure your SOHO and helpful suggestions for your consideration that may help you rethink home network security.
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