Business Security Information

If you are like most businesses, you have more on your plate than you have time to deal with.  Keeping up with all the security issues that face your business can be a daunting task.  One resource that can help you is the new Mozilla Plug-in Checker.  This tool lets you determine which of the computer plug-ins you are currently using are outdated.  While this may not have concerned you before, there is good reason to pay attention to your plug-ins.

GFI has two e-mail security services—MailEdge and MailProtection.  We were given a choice between the two when we registered for a free trial.  We chose GFI MailProtection.  Once we had logged into our account and configured a domain, we were then given, under the Domain Management tab in the Services settings, an option to change from Full (MailProtection) or Edge (MailEdge) protection.  Depending on which one was chosen, additional options were available to configure prior to saving the setting.  The only real difference we noted between GFI MailProtection and GFI MailEdge is that GFI MailProtection also provided virus protection where GFI MailEdge did not.  Both products are marketed to small and medium sized-businesses.

I was planning on writing about endpoint security near the end of last month, but with the holidays and numerous other business and personal activities occurring at the end of the year I had to take a little sabbatical from writing posts for our website.  It is good to be back into the swing of things again, and I hope everyone has a great and successful year with their business.  As always I will be here to help you with any security issues that you may have for your business so feel free to leave comments or contact me using my contact form on my About page.

I was thinking about how busy life and business seem some-days–today being one of those days.  It got me pondering how complicated security can be for a business, especially computer security issues.  Fortunately there are some simple things that can be done to protect PC’s in your business without you  having to spend enormous amounts of time or money–things that you can do right now!

In recent articles, I have spoken about PCI compliance and about security tools that can help you identify sensitive information on your computers .  While talking about PCI with a company recently and as I write these articles, I realized that there is enormous amounts of open-source software that can assist businesses in complying with some of the elements of PCI.  I have included a list of possible open source software that you might find useful when working on the different elements of PCI.  I use open-source software for a variety of elements in my business and personal life and find it comparable or superior in many ways.  Of course, there is usually a learning curve when working with any new software whether open-source or purchased.