Lionheart Assurance suggests that if your small business has computers and networks, you should conduct a security audit to protect your data from hostile intrusion. A technically proficient data thief, who can then use this information for purposes of identity theft, can exploit even a small vulnerability.
This consulting company recommends that you take the following 5 steps in your small business to conduct an effective security audit:
1. Begin by defining the full scope of your planned audit. Create an asset list of your technology and define a security perimeter. Your asset list will include things like computers, servers, routers, and networks, as well as the various folders, files, and file sharing permissions on each computer or mobile device that you want to protect. Your security perimeter will decide on the extent of your security precautions.
2. The next important thing to do is to create a list of what is most vulnerable. Where is your most sensitive information stored and how is it being protected?
3. Besides taking care of information security currently in your database, you should also ensure that new incoming information will be stored in a secure way as well.
4. Now that you have compiled a list of assets and vulnerabilities, as well as made decisions on how to take precautions against future threats, you have to decide in what order you will proceed to audit your security and fix any weaknesses.
5. The final step is to decide who has access to the network and for what purpose. By gathering this information, you will be able to implement Network Access Controls (NAC).
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Lionheart Assurance also recommends creating a backup system that includes onsite and offsite storage, as well as secured access to backups. In addition, decisions have to be made about the best times for scheduled backups.
About Lionheart Assurance & The Lionheart Assurance Scam Prevention Toolkit
Lionheart Assurance is a consulting company that has mentored hundreds of companies on information security and identity theft issues. Lionheart Assurance Solutions is focused on helping people reduce the likelihood of becoming a target of identity theft scams. This consulting organization has been a champion in the war to fight identity theft since 2003.
The Lionheart Assurance team consists of professional business consultants with regional offices throughout the US who specialize in offering unique employee benefits, identity theft education and identity theft risk mitigation. Lionheart Assurance - through the Lionheart Assurance Scam Prevention Toolkit - champions ways to better inform the public and their clients on how to mitigate the risks associated with identity theft.
Lionheart Assurance launched the Lionheart Assurance Scam Prevention Toolkit in 2009 in response to the growing needs of the business community to stay on top of the latest scams perpetrated by identity thieves.