Tips to protect computer from hackers

One of business administrator or leader’s responsibility is to manage and control company’s costs and budget. It’s important for them to take efforts to secure company data and information, for data especially sensitive and confidential data and information loss or leakage may lead to a large amount of economic loss.

Many small business administrators and leaders think that hackers wouldn’t take them as targets because of their small scale. Hackers and malicious attacks just use their fluky psychology to steal their valuable data and information or damage their computer system, because this kind of businesses lack security precaution and easier to be attacked.

Small to medium size businesses seldom emphasize on computer and network security management; hence, they often become targets or even victims of data breaches. As computer and Internet attacks are constantly annoying administrators and managers of business. That’s why many large companies and governments agencies around the world spend much time and money on data and information security. Some companies build professional IT team to arrange company network system. For small businesses that can’t afford to hire a group of professional IT staffs, the following equipments and tips can help them a lot.

Anti-virus software
Every computer in company should install anti-virus software; we can say that the anti-virus software is a necessity of every new machine for computer security. With effective and powerful anti-virus software, virus, Trojan and other malware can’t invade or infect your computer system that easily. And all staffs in company must regularly check computer using anti-virus software.

Firewall
Firewall is another necessity for new computer. And the firewalls should be in active mode as long as the computer is on. Firewall is useful to prevent unauthorized entry of hackers.

Keep operating system up to the date
To minimize risk of virus and malware attacks, every employee need to ensure the loopholes or vulnerabilities of computer operating systems are fixed in time. Every vulnerability or loophole may provide hackers with opportunities to invade and damage the company computer system.

Update all the programs running on your system
Some hackers will make use of the vulnerabilities and loopholes of some common programs running in your computer to invade your system. You should never ignore the importance of the patches and updates of these programs.

These equipments and tips are just the primary precautions to help computer system defend the common attacks of virus or malware. For folders or files that contains confidential and sensitive data and information, extra password protection is necessary. As any data loss or data leakage may result in reputational or economic loss for company, comprehensive protection on files and folders in employees’ computers can effectively assist to decrease the rate of data theft. For enterprises, shared folder is a part of important documents which should be protected with password. Not all employees on LAN have right to access all the shared folders, which gives us a reason to password protect shared folder and then assign permissions to different user groups based on their right level.