Importance Of Properly Managed Networks

By Author: Jim Strange
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Network security is important for a variety of reasons. First of all, it is important to ensure that your company's reputation will not be tarnished by a security breach leaking your customer's information. Large, small, known and unknown companies are all at risk to an attack led by a hacker. One security breach and the reputation of the company can immediately take a turn for the worse. Once a company is educated about their network's strengths and weaknesses, they will gain a better understanding of areas they may be at risk to an attack and be able to take appropriate measures to pinpoint areas where security needs to be reinforced.

Network security is vital to keeping hackers from viewing sensitive information. Whether that sensitive information is about the company or your customers, it is information which you do not wish to make public. Hackers can also use different information found on your network to gain full access to ones system. A simple visible code found on a network can be one of many unlikely keys that can open the gates to control of your network. Once the gates are open hackers not only have access ...
... to sensitive stored information, but also can gain control of your computer and use it to send out spam, surf the internet, attack other computers and networks and make the attacks appear as if they are coming from you. This ability to mask their identity could create a liability for your business that could potentially even involve a federal investigation.
Internet security products assist companies address the three main network vulnerabilities: technological weakness, configuration weakness and security policy weakness. Technology weakness typically occurs within network equipment, operating systems and the TCP/IP protocol itself. Configuration weakness often stems from unused features of networking equipment not being properly disabled but can also occur in settings being used based on improper configuration by administrators. Security policy weaknesses stem from either a lack of policies, weak policies or policies that are ignored by the users.
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