IT Network Security - The New World's Lock & Key

It's Sunday morning, when another office, just to turn on your computer you've logged in - on a sudden you begin to feel your "Home Page" is changed, your computer is progressing too slowly in short internet connection is extremely slow .... IT Network and began to cut down your fresh in all men!

The workplace is sure that that hath an issue about a year, however, anything thought of "quite the internal" to being shut, and the chambers of. Today the world has grown and is made on the computer driven technology, providing innovative e-crime an opportunity to use are in this case the benefit of the network through the carelessness of a hostage of your knowledge and use of greater technology. More than they are now more need of was a very large kinds of firewalls that, Network Lockdowns, Key Fobs, etc. passwords and that the work of companies to obtain the sensitive information from the books of financial lifeline and kept the basic to the work.

Others do not know how they perform the affairs of the exponents themselves, but when he opened the port in the firewall or router leading to a hole in the database or the network of the world can look at the sensitive material without you even knowing until it's too late.

Last month a new company signed on with Libra IT for simple "network support" because they felt their old IT provider was not giving them the patience they feel they deserved. When our engineer did a network audit we noticed that the tape backup's have not been successful in over 2 months! With that alone a red flag should have gone up. More problems were found... much more! Every port on the firewall was open allowing anyone into the server which nullified the purpose of the firewall entirely.

And to add misery to suffering... Half the staff knew the Administrator Password!!! (Simple passwords are not enough... did you know that the most common password used today is "password" and the second most common is "admin"? Many users have half a dozen passwords to remember which is why the most common password is 'password.' The usual solution is to write it down. But how secure is that?) This oversight allowed anyone into the system to change, delete or add anything they wanted... what if one of these people became a "disgruntled employee" later down the line? Finally we stumbled upon another serious issue that could have been disastrous... After the previous IT person was "dismissed" they were trying to hack into the system using "old employees passwords" (which worked) and decided to try and delete files as well as "hide" mistakes he made. Luckily we tracked everything they did by backing the system up successfully in case anything like this happened!

Makes you wish we could go back to the old days when we had a safe with paperwork in it or a filing cabinet with a lock on it that held our businesses most prized possessions. Today, this information is resting in your servers, networked to the staff and then to the internet for fast and easy day to day operations bringing business to what we once called "The future of doing business". With this new system that has treated us well in the past decade or so, we have neglected to see what other possibilities are growing out there such as network hacking, malicious script sent through email in the form of humour from a trusted source, which destroys our data or even worse, a complete breakdown of our network and loss of all information.

Another item I wanted to touch upon was something I stumbled upon last month when a new client came on board and asked simply if we could upgrade their server. The company in this situation changed their IT Firm service to us because they felt like they were not getting the service they needed and wanted more experienced engineering in their technical arena.

As he felt quite Financial of so great a company we did not know that which you were sealed it stumble upon! If you look at any time the URL's you will see the most of them start with http. But he trusted in the links you come across "as though used by companies financial institutions which any laws by which look like this is http:where" S "signifies the site that it's secure, which no man have authority to enter unless with British, by the sad in the password. This can only be the allies he trusted their financial know how to site was in no way shape or form safe? Here's how he did the previous firm ... a firm that the angle above all the confidence in the URL to send traffic to one Web-server dwelling place for the main page under the URL https: then he carried away to retrieve the http:to he asks for a simple "was given to financial are for from any other source of clients and slaves (he is a serf was given to storage). Vehicles may be forgiven the server which is the first carried away again http:to https: to look on and back to the people that is secure! At length, trace of this had been sent unbeknownst to them that was given to financial bodies were not enough to be performed. This was immediately corrected and a lesson to at last restored to confidence but ... when implemented as security for your network, Arise, certificates of records of your opinion you will find, or even thou, father, hackers of the world and asking the eyes.