The costs and cures for business data breaches

Within organizations, information security should be everyone’s responsibility — whether you’re a technical person or not. That’s the general theme for Michael Santarcangelo’s book, Into the Breach. When a corporation has a major data loss, it affects the brand, the customers, and often the bottom line.
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Special report on small-business security

This issue marks what may be a first for Windows Secrets — an entire issue devoted to one topic.

The theme for this week is small-business security. It’s the first of a series of special issues we plan to publish each year.
By Tracey Capen

Keep your data safe while on the road

Sure, you’ve put in all the right data-security tools at your office, but how about when you or your employees are outside the firewall?

Keeping your business data safe while working outside the office requires extra vigilance; here are some tips that will help.
By Susan Bradley

Keeping your business data under lock and key

If you’re looking for a data-protection silver bullet, you won’t find it here — it doesn’t exist.

Protecting your business information is a multilayered process that combines technology, human awareness, and regular reviews of your policies and practices.
By Susan Bradley

Portable black hole gives employee access to all

Here’s a video we’ve used before, but we think it’s both appropriate for this issue’s theme and certainly humorous enough to repeat.
By Tracey Capen