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What You Need to Know About Security

Many small business owners believe that they do not need to worry much about computer and online security. “After all,” they reason, “who would want to target my business when there are so many bigger targets out there?” While it’s true that small businesses are not directly attacked as often as larger organizations, there are three reasons why small businesses should be concerned:

 • Small businesses often end up affected by larger attacks, such as mass worm outbreaks or efforts to harvest credit card numbers.

• Security is becoming tighter than ever at larger companies, so small business networks look increasingly tempting to attackers.

• Not all security threats come from outside your organization.

 Regardless of how or why your business is attacked, recovery usually takes significant time and effort.

·        Imagine if your computer systems were unavailable for a week.

·        Imagine if you lost all the data stored on all the computers in your company.

·        Imagine if your biggest competitor was able to obtain a list of your customers along with sales figures and sales notes.

·        How long would it take? Before you noticed?

·         What would these breaches cost your Company?

·        Could you afford these losses?

It seems like common sense. You wouldn’t leave your building unlocked at night. The same is true with information security, and a few simple steps can make you a lot less vulnerable. Technology experts have a way of making basic security seem like a huge and difficult issue. Luckily, securing your business is easier than you might think.

Firewalls
A firewall separates one portion of a network from another and allows only authorized Network traffic to pass through. On a small business network, a firewall typically separates the local private network from the Internet. Some firewalls examine the packets that flow in and possibly out of the network to make sure that they are legitimate; firewalls can also filter out suspicious packets. Firewalls hide the identities of computers within your private network to make it harder for criminal hackers to target individual computers

 Servers
A server is really just another computer attached to a network that is designated to perform some special function, such as share a printer, store files, or deliver Web pages. Remember that if your laptop or desktop computer is connected to the Internet, it is also a kind of server and, without a firewall, is capable of receiving unwanted traffic from the Internet.

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Attackers can attack your network in many ways

Firewalls hide the identities of computers within your private network to make it harder for criminal hackers to target individual computers

Imagine if your computer systems were unavailable for a week

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