Security Threat and Data Protection Tips

Thereat is defined as a computer program, a person, or an event that violates the security system. A threat causes loss of data and attacks the data privacy. Most of the data of an organization stored inside the computer in very important and more valuable than the computer hardware and software. It can be damaged due to many reasons. You must protect your data from illegal access or from damage. The following are the main threats to data security. * Some authorized user of the data may unintentionally delete or change sensitive data. There are two solutions to this problem. * Firstly, the users must be assigned proper rights to minimize such events. Only the authorized user with certain rights may be allowed to delete or modify data after following a step-by-step process. * Secondly, periodic backup of data should be taken to recover the deleted data. * A proper password protection should be used to use any resource. A log file should also be maintained to keep track of all the activities performed on the data. * Some strong encryption algorithm should be used, so that if any one gets access to the data, he could not be able to make any sense out of it. * Latest antivirus software should be used to scan all data coming into the organization. * Computers and all backing storage devices should be placed in locked rooms. Only authorized users can access these resources. * Authorized users must be asked to change their passwords periodically. Data Protection Data protection means making sure that private data belonging to a person or organization is kept hidden from those who are not authorized to use it. Many organization collect data of their customers. Some of this data is needed for efficient processing the business transactions but much of this data is personal information of the customer. For example, a hospital collects data about the disease history of patients. All the personal data kept by different organizations may be disclosed for some legal purpose. The data protection rules do not allow anyone to disclose personal data of any person. It means that any personal data kept by some organization should never be disclosed to unauthorized persons or organizations under any circumstances.