It’s been said among IT experts, in fact, that “if you want to know something about a person or a company that no one else in the world knows, hack his doctor’s or attorney’s computer.” Regardless of your industry, your customers trust you with their proprietary data that can only be protected with airtight network security.
No matter the size of your business or organization, your network security if very important. A small business's network is just as important to its owners as the large enterprise networks. On the same token, the liability of your customers information is the same across all sizes of networks. Be ready, be safe, and be pro-active to network security. It benefits everyone.....Les Vance
10 Laws of Network Security:
Law #1: Nobody believes anything bad can happen to them, until it does.
Law #2: Security only works if the secure way also happens to be the easy way.
Law #3: If you don't keep up with security fixes, your network won't be yours for long.
Law #4: It doesn't do much good to install security fixes on a computer that was never secured to begin with.
Law #5: Eternal vigilance is the price of security.
Law #6: There really is someone out there trying to guess your passwords.
Law #7: The most secure network is a well-administered one.
Law #8: The difficulty of defending a network is directly proportional to its complexity.
Law #9: Security isn't about risk avoidance; it's about risk management.
Law #10: Technology is not a panacea. Murphy's Law -- If it can happen it will happen.
... Microsoft TechNet Division