2minute
Tips to Avoid Home Business Data Theft
Filed in archive business ideas by noel on October 25, 2006
Tips to Avoid Home Business Data Theft
The advent of the Internet technology made hackers multiply as quick as viruses. Although as a home business owner, you don't have too many employees that might steal anything from your business docs or any other sensitive data, it still calls for drastic measures in making your business data safe. Here are anti-data-theft tips for any kind of business but are especially useful for home business data security:

1. Patch early and often

2. Enforce sane password policies


3. Mind your VPN

This is especially helpful to home business entrepreneurs as making a Virtual Private Network too accessible can cause data leak that might pose great damage to your business. So, do limit access to VPN to your virtual assistants and other telecommuting staff, if any.

4. Hack yourself
It's advised to hire someone to break your network to check how easy or hard is it for your network to be attacked.

5. Sequester sensitive data

If you run an e-commerce site, credit card details and other information from your clients should be always kept safe from hacker attacks.

Read more details about the 10 Commandments of Information Security.



Permalink: Tips to Avoid Home Business Data Theft
Tags: hack+attack  data+theft  home+business+tip  VPN  password+protection 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/40386
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Tips to Avoid Home Business Data Theft:

  • Currently 8.40/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 8.40 out of 5 vote(s) cast.
 
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!