Growing Companies and information leakages

Do you know all possible ways to take information outemployee, stolen by some spyware software, copies
of company so that no one would know about this?to the external drive, etc. Think about all possible ways
I'm sure, even there are some certain security rulesand think about risks applied. Try to minimize the risk
there are still some possible ways for informationfor the most important data.
leakage. Let's think about how can we control thisLet's list some possible security issues and the ways
process.how we can get rid of them.
First, it's necessary to understand that there no anyKeyloggers and other spyware software. Keylogger is
absolute means about security. Even if USB port ita program that works in background, records all
blocked, it's still possible to write some data to USB, ifkeystrokes and send out information to third-party. The
there is system that controls outgoing mails, then it's stillgood idea is to start with firewall, which will allow
possible to use some trick that intruder might use toaccess to the internet only for a certain programs.
send out important data out of the company.Intruder insider your company. Statistics shows that
So how to manage information security policies tothere are some in most companies. The bad news is
prevent possible data leakages? Let's list all possiblethat these people might produce more damage that all
ways to prevent leakage. There are two generalother attackers. Make sure you know about what
categories - active and proactive security. Theseemployee do, what he or she keeps on his hard disk
terms are sometime hard to understand in real word,and all you do comply with privacy policy of your
so let's discuss another approach. There are meanscompany.
that will help to prevent the fact of information leakage,Hardware that might be dangerous. There are
and there are means that will help to find out, ifsoftware that allows to lock USB ports, there are
information was leaked. Both methods should besoftware that allows to block access to any other
considered when building information security at yourwriteable media, consider installing these tools on
company.computers and user accounts which doesn't need to
How to prevent information leakage. First, it'suse this functions during their work.
necessary to apply a security policy which willFinally, the key principle about fighting information
guaranty the access to the certain data only forleakage is to be proactive. You don't need to wait until
trusted persons, in this way you will always know whosome information will be stolen, being a little paranoid
has access to the data, so it is easier to find possiblewill help to save your business. It's easy to install and
intruder and to control your employees.integrate into the security policy some audit measures,
Second, consider all possible ways for information tothat will regularly check your company for possible
be stolen, such as sent out by email, copies by somesecurity holes, it's simple, but it's work.