A non-profit enterprise whose mission is to help organizations reduce the risk of business and e-commerce disruptions resulting from inadequate technical security controls.
Learn about tools that enable end users in your organization to lock down their own environment and help protect their desktops. Find webcasts and virtual labs that provide policy strategy, tips and tricks, and prescriptive guidance to help strengthen your organization's security, without sacrificing network performance and flexibility.
C3SC will provide advice for planning, implementing, and maintaining an IT security strategy. Further to the core security services offered, C3SC will also provide consulting services for planning, deploying, and upgrading company Windows infrastructure.
If you want to test a new/different version of Linux, there are many "live CD" distributions that allow you to boot into the operating system without needing to install it on the hard drive.
Only and estimated 25% of companies report computer intrusions to law enforcement.
They site bad publicity and loss of credibility as major concerns.
Set up a firewall. Even if you just use dial-up or DSL you are fully exposed to the internet.
This is your primary defense and protects against outside attacks by screening and blocking all traffic between your network and the Internet that is not allowed. The firewall also hides computer addresses. Firewall hardware connects between the cable/ DSL modem and your computers. Windows operating systems have great built-in firewalls.
An average of $1,300 is spent per employee in companies of $10m revenue or less.
This is 10 times greater than companies with revenue of $100m - $1bn. Unable to realize the economies of scale, smaller companies spend disproportionately higher amounts on security - learn how to leverage lessons learnt by larger companies.
Many security initiatives fail to have longevity.
Because they are not presented to senior management as a business need they lack the authority to be prioritized.
