Comment Re:Security (Score 5) 259
Securing your data is not something you achieve by using a few buzzword technologies.
The technology is just a mean to help you implement the security policy, it`s not the wonderous tool that relieves you from your security worries.
Security is not just a job for IS/IT-departments, it`s something that is achieved troughout the entire company. You need to get well written procedures, dealing with every aspect of security. From securing your hard drives with encryption, to making sure there`s a decent lock on your server room, and to making sure people don`t just leave there cd-roms and disks floating around ... It`s very important to create an awareness with everybody on how to deal with information.
In this case the notebook was stolen from someones desk, this proves that in your security policy, you not only need to include encryption, firewalling, logging, ... but determing who has access to which offices at what times... ( key-cards that open the door, cameras in the hallway, ... ) ...
The technology is just a mean to help you implement the security policy, it`s not the wonderous tool that relieves you from your security worries.
Security is not just a job for IS/IT-departments, it`s something that is achieved troughout the entire company. You need to get well written procedures, dealing with every aspect of security. From securing your hard drives with encryption, to making sure there`s a decent lock on your server room, and to making sure people don`t just leave there cd-roms and disks floating around
In this case the notebook was stolen from someones desk, this proves that in your security policy, you not only need to include encryption, firewalling, logging,