Many organisations are now enormously dependent on their IT systems to hold and protect their data, yet all too often they give insufficient consideration to how vulnerable that data may be. Protronics will provide pragmatic advice on how to ensure you adequately protect your data. While we can provide appropriate IT infrastructure, we believe that you should also have company procedures that enable you to validate that your data is being protected. Key areas include:


Anti-virus protection
Viruses are a major and increasing threat to corporate networks. It is vital that systems are in place to ensure that you have the latest anti-virus protection, and that these systems are regularly validated. Anti-virus software is itself intrusive and potentially problematic, but the alternative of not deploying it regularly results in major network failure.

Backups
These are vital and, in principle, simple. However, incorrect configuration is surprisingly common and backup technology surprisingly vulnerable to failure. We will implement systems that provide you with reports and alerts if there are problems, but we will also remind you that you cannot be sure that you have successfully backed up your critical data unless you have demonstrated that you can restore it.

Internet security
It is not just defence establishments and banks that are targeted by hackers. There is software available on the Internet that allows people to automatically scan the Internet for vulnerable systems. If you are connected to the Internet, you are almost certainly being probed by such software on a regular basis. You should have appropriate protection, and you should test it regularly.