Compromising Business Behavior: How Not To Expose Your Company’s Secrets
Everyday behaviors such as using your laptop at the airport or conducting a business call while walking down a crowded street can jeopardize your company’s information.
“Most corporate intelligence losses aren’t a result of high-tech crime,” says Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors Group and author of “Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don’t Even Know You Encounter Every Day.” “They’re the result of human errors or system loopholes that can be remedied easily and cost-effectively.”
Yet many small- and mid-sized companies remain vulnerable because they don’t believe they’re at risk. According to the Small Business Technology Institute, more than half of all small businesses in the U.S.-or as many as 13 million-experienced a security breach in the past year due to insufficient virus protection, employee manipulation (also called social engineering) or everyday behaviors that disclose business strategies unintentionally.
That’s why...