Tips to Avoid Home Business Data Theft

Filed in archive business ideas on October 25, 2006

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.