The best security starts with asking the right questions. While I was speaking with a prospect yesterday, she asked me, “what security measures do you use on your own system?”
It’s a great security question. A sign of good leadership is to not ask others to do what you are not willing to do yourself. So, in that spirit, here is a summary of the things we at Tekmar do to harden our IT system from attack to the extent possible.
- Use best in class hardware firewall
- Use best in class anti-virus and malware detection software.
- Use best in class monitoring and management software
- Use best in class password management software
- Use best in class periodic external audits
- Use best in class IP providers
- Use both best in class cloud and local backup
- Use multifactor authentication for all devices
- Use best in class modern operating systems and software
- Use best in class data encryption
- Update promptly, stay modern
- Have a regular external IT audit.
When was the last time you had a third party external audit.
The major breach that you just heard of has one thing in common with the others that you have heard about of the past couplpe years: they all thought they were safe. A third party external audit is the best way to make sure your IT internal audits are doing there job.