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Security Best Practices Without Question?

Are you feeling insecure lately? No, not about yourself but about your organization's competitive position in the marketplace? What about its ability to meet client and business partner obligations? Or, it's ability to stay out of the court system and on the good side of your industry's regulators? Well, if your organization is like most, it's got problems, big problems when it comes to protecting one of its most valuable assets: electronic information. Arguably, electronic information is second in value just behind your organization?s employee capital.

There are a lot of security tips out there that you can follow: firewall this, encrypt that, strong passwords for all, and security policies that leave no byte unturned. These are all security "best practices" that we hear about and have forced upon us by checklist auditors, lawyers, regulators, and (perhaps worst of all) vendors generating hype in the name of a dollar. An alarming number of organizations buy into this free advice and blindly operate their businesses believing that if they throw enough money into some technology and document key security policies, they're safe. Everyone else is doing it, after all. Yeah, right! This one size fits all mentality is way off and bad for business.
Security Best Practices Without Question? - IT Observer

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