Building Security
Building security entails protecting the perimeter, access, what’s inside and what leaves. While we all are familiar with fences, door locks, access control and CCTV to stop perpetrators from entering your facility, but how are you protecting information from leaving the company?
These difficult economic times for businesses can become a nightmare should the company experience a data breach. With layoffs and unemployment increasing companies are experiencing an increase in attacks. Employees are walking our with data to start their own businesses, sell to others or even worse steal another persons identity. Hackers and data thieves are also trying to get to your data. Sometimes the easiest way for thieves to collect information is through the careless habits of other employees.
With cell phone cameras, email, instant messages, flash drives and so forth important data could be leaving without you even knowing it. There are also the low tech leaks through the garbage cans, recycle bins, fax machine and community printers. When an employee leaves for the day are there documents on his/her desk that are sensitive?
Since the government privacy protection laws don’t care how a breach occurs but rather you put in safeguards to try to prevent a breach. To help secure an office you need to also concider:
- Clean desk policy
- Paper shredders or a document disposal service
- Disable USB ports
- Locking file cabnets
- Employee training.
