Enterprise security tips from Symantec

BANGALORE, INDIA: The ever increasing security risks has leaft both medium and large enterprises wondering who they can protect their valuable data safe.

Here are some tips from Symantec:

A. Businesses can enforce policies through built-in automation and workflow to protect information, identify threats, and remediate incidents as they occur or anticipate them before they happen. Therefore, organizations need to develop and enforce IT policies.

B. Taking a content-aware approach to protecting information is key in identifying and classifying confidential, sensitive information, knowing where it resides, who has access to it, and how it is coming in or leaving your organization.

Proactively encrypting endpoints will also help organizations minimize the consequences associated with lost devices.

To help control access, IT administrators need to validate and protect the identities of users, sites and devices throughout their organizations. Furthermore, they need to provide trusted connections and authenticate transactions where appropriate.

C. Organizations need to manage systems by implementing secure operating environments, distributing and enforcing patch levels, automating processes to streamline efficiency, and monitoring and reporting on system status.

D. IT administrators need to protect their infrastructure by securing all of their endpoints — including the growing number of mobile devices — along with messaging and Web environments. Defending critical internal servers and implementing the ability to back up and recover data should also be priorities. In addition, organizations need visibility, security intelligence and ongoing malware assessments of their environments to respond to threats rapidly.