The challenges in the IT sector are increasing for companies. New attacks, facilitated by the use of CloudSecurity computing, mobility and social media as well as inadequate security concepts in companies, always require new security strategies.
Due to the increasing user centering of IT, the importance of the employee as a vulnerability is constantly increasing, as a study by IC (idc.de) shows. Peter Kopfmann, spokesman for the messaging specialist Retarus (retarus.de), recommends introducing behavioral training for employees.
Training Necessary and Required
Half of the companies surveyed identified employees as the weakest link in their IT security chain, followed by smartphones, laptops and PC workstations. For example, companies should better train employees when handling e-mails, and the private use of e-mails in the workplace should be banned. Headman sleeps. This should also apply to the private use of Facebook and Twitter. In view of the high attention of social channels in the target group of 18-40 year olds, it was foreseeable that the hackers and spammers take advantage of the wide spread of social media, my headman.
According to the employees, the growing number of terminals is mentioned as a security-critical element of IT, because they allow access to the systems and company data almost anytime from anywhere.
Companies look at themselves safely
The companies surveyed are satisfied with the quality of their protection measures and facilities. 60 percent consider protection against external attacks to be highly secure. In order to maintain the level of security, it is necessary to continuously invest in technology and know-how. It must not underestimate the associated effort and costs for operation and administration.
Companies use security from the cloud
Both are usually difficult for a typical medium-sized company to represent, as the operation, maintenance and security of the IT architecture is not one of his actual core competencies. A cost-effective option for small and medium-sized companies is cloud-based services. These are not only more efficient but also significantly cheaper than the provision of the corresponding services in your own company.
Because all overhead costs incurred for the operation of your own security infrastructure are distributed among several customers, says Kopfmann, who at the same time emphasizes that there is no 100% security. However, companies must offer maximum protection in any case.