White Papers
Your Employees: The Hidden Ingredient in Information Security
You know that it’s important to protect your organization’s information assets. You’ve invested in firewalls, antivirus and antimalware software, and encryption tools, and security protocols. Yet even with all those safeguards, you may be missing out on a critical piece of your security strategy if your workers aren’t equipped with the knowledge to support the tools that you do have in place.
Our white paper explains how technology solutions alone are not enough to protect your organization, discusses the common security risks posed by unaware employees, and shows how training can reduce security incidents.
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Starting an Information Security Program
In recent years, information security has been catapulted from obscurity to front-page news. Poorly designed and improperly managed information systems have been blamed for stolen credit card numbers, identity theft, and an array of other business interruptions – many resulting in significant financial losses. Software companies have issued a torrent of security advisories and security patches, straining IT departments worldwide.
Information security is not a technology problem – it is a risk management issue. But many business executives do not know where to begin. This primer suggests steps that a business should take in order to begin an information security program.
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The Strategic Role of HR
Technology and new mandates are beginning to change HR’s traditional, tactical roles into strategic services. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in newly emerging partnerships between innovative HR and security groups.
This white paper describes some of the areas where security and HR can begin working together, providing collaborative results and capabilities that will benefit their organization.
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Security Mistakes that Many Organizations Make
Mistakes that companies make today are split between a failure to maintain adequate security in the face of current threats, and the failure to establish business processes and other people-related issues that reduce risk.
Careful introspection and a thorough understanding of the inner working of your organization are needed to understand your organization’s shortcomings in the field of information security.
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Consider Security Issues When Moving Office
A business that is relocating or expanding into a new office location should include security concerns in its search criteria, and also make policy and procedural changes in conjunction with the relocation.
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You know that it’s important to protect your organization’s information assets. You’ve invested in firewalls, antivirus and antimalware software, and encryption tools, and security protocols. Yet even with all those safeguards, you may be missing out on a critical piece of your security strategy if your workers aren’t equipped with the knowledge to support the tools that you do have in place.
Our white paper explains how technology solutions alone are not enough to protect your organization, discusses the common security risks posed by unaware employees, and shows how training can reduce security incidents.
Download the white paper to learn:
- Aware and informed employees are key to countering today’s information security threats.
- Human inattention can undermine a security program.
- Most attacks today target people, not computers.
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Starting an Information Security Program
In recent years, information security has been catapulted from obscurity to front-page news. Poorly designed and improperly managed information systems have been blamed for stolen credit card numbers, identity theft, and an array of other business interruptions – many resulting in significant financial losses. Software companies have issued a torrent of security advisories and security patches, straining IT departments worldwide.
Information security is not a technology problem – it is a risk management issue. But many business executives do not know where to begin. This primer suggests steps that a business should take in order to begin an information security program.
Download the white paper to learn:
- Employees need to know what constitutes appropriate behavior concerning the use of their company’s information systems and assets.
- An objective assessment can be one of the most effective ways to gauge a business' risk.
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The Strategic Role of HR
Technology and new mandates are beginning to change HR’s traditional, tactical roles into strategic services. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in newly emerging partnerships between innovative HR and security groups.
This white paper describes some of the areas where security and HR can begin working together, providing collaborative results and capabilities that will benefit their organization.
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- HR, being the keeper of “who’s who” in the organization, is in a unique position to publish the organization’s “who’s who” data.
- Innovation in the technology used to organize and manage data about people, present several opportunities for leveraging the employee database for many more uses.
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Security Mistakes that Many Organizations Make
Mistakes that companies make today are split between a failure to maintain adequate security in the face of current threats, and the failure to establish business processes and other people-related issues that reduce risk.
Careful introspection and a thorough understanding of the inner working of your organization are needed to understand your organization’s shortcomings in the field of information security.
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- It is difficult to understand emerging threats and translate them into sound business policy.
- Most organizations have historically taken the approach of protecting the company through technology alone.
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Consider Security Issues When Moving Office
A business that is relocating or expanding into a new office location should include security concerns in its search criteria, and also make policy and procedural changes in conjunction with the relocation.
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- Moving into new quarters is a good opportunity to make other changes that may be only indirectly related to the move.
- This is an opportunity to design and build a new and more secure infrastructure rather than just move the old one to the new premises.
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