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Securing Information

The World Wide Web has radically altered the way business is conducted. The globalisation and the Internet have brought enormous opportunities and benefits to businesses. Today, the Internet provides lots of variants to promote various goods or services. Of course, the size and location of your business are becoming increasingly unimportant, and all companies compete on a level playing field in the Web. Every day people may choose to buy anything from various websites and at any time. It is a very convenient. Furthermore, it will save money and time. But, you should be aware, e-commerce is a far riskier proposition. Of course, the ease, speed, and openness of the online universe are very appealing to both the consumer and the retailer. But, unfortunately, it also its greatest weakness, offering far more potentialities for a scam and malicious activities, so please securing information. It means the swindlers may record user’s banking information.

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Beware of e-commerce fraud!

So, if you want to start the business online, you should know that you may face e-commerce fraud. Furthermore, you should protect securing company information. We recommend you to examine the tips below and defend your companies from nasty swindlers.

  1. 1. First of all, you should protect confidential information, such as customer information, intellectual property, employee data. Access to the important data should be monitored and controlled through a secure log in system. Thus, the system will note who has viewed and/or downloaded information from where and when.
  2. 2. You need to check and analyse the key ways in which your sensitive information could be at risk (hacking, social engineering). You should block the use of phishing, identity theft, spam, etc. Also, the scammers may use special computer programs (viruses, Trojans, so forth). It is developed specifically to break into computer systems.
  3. 3. Also, we recommend you to clean old devices of confidential data before disposal.
  4. 4. You need to check your anti-malware program and firewall. They are up-to-date.
  5. 5. You must say employees to practice safe surfing habits.
  6. 6. We advise you to regulate employee access to Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social media. It will help you to limit their ability to deliberately (or maybe inadvertently) leak sensitive data.

You must protect your business. Otherwise, you may put at risk your privacy. Furthermore, you may face financial losses. But if you will control employee access to important data, use strong passwords and update your anti-malware software, you may prevent lots of troubles. Stay safe!

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Daniel Zimmermann

Daniel Zimmermann has been writing on security and malware subjects for many years and has been working in the security industry for over 10 years. Daniel was educated at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and currently lives in New York.

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