The current pace of development of information systems has led to the fact that the security and protection of information has ceased to be something of only theoretical interest. Many companies prohibit employees from using flash drives or similar media to prevent possible data leakage.
This is easily explained if we recall that at present, information can often cost significantly more than a tangible thing. These are the development trends. Not surprisingly, information security is a must. This is especially important for companies working with digital data - mail services, hosting, remote banking operations, etc.
Protection Basics
In the above areas, a sophisticated information security center is used that controls many parameters. Although each company has its own approach to implementing security, we’ll indicate some key points:
- Since electronic systems require an uninterrupted supply of all key components with electrical energy, a necessary condition for reliable operation and data safety is the availability of redundant power lines. It can be autonomous generators, batteries, spare lines.
- Information security cannot be sufficient until automatic backup of important (or protected) data to a duplicate medium is performed automatically.
- To ensure the smooth operation of all computing modules, it is necessary to solve the problem with the conditions of their operation: ambient temperature, dust and humidity should be within acceptable limits.
In addition to these three points, an indispensable condition, without which information security is unthinkable, is the availability of software protection methods. These are complex anti-virus systems, access control, use of SSL encryption.
Simple user practice
Since the term "information security" is too generalized, in our article we will talk about a particular case - the protection of digital data in a computer.
Sometimes it may seem that the data on the medium of an ordinary user is not of particular interest. However, the abundance of keyloggers, viruses and other malicious programs makes one think about the correctness of such a belief.
We point out the most important element of any security system - this is compliance with certain rules for working with data on the global network and on third-party media. And information security software is an add-on to the rules.
We list them:
- Avoid visiting suspicious resources. Usually the information you need can be found on other sites. Some modern browsers (Dragon, Chrome) warn of an attempt to visit a page with malicious code. Their capabilities can be expanded by installing the WOT add-on.
- You should not once again indicate your data on the site pages : email address, mobile phone number (no confirmation!), Access codes and passwords.
- You cannot open letters whose sender is unknown.
Software protection should be implemented by integrated systems. That is, antivirus alone is not enough. Any of two solutions is acceptable: installation of a kind of combine that has absorbed all the basic protective solutions. This is KIS, NOD Security Suite, Dr.Web Space or manual layout. For example, a bunch of Outpost Firewall + Avira antivirus is quite viable.