Corporate Security and IT Policies

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Corporations need to protect their physical and soft assets in today’s world of thieves and hackers. To do so, they implement IT and Security Policies, which protect their corporations against such attacks. These prevention mechanisms can be split up into three main categories: hardware, software, and social (employees).

Hardware Security

This is the hardware stuff

Typical security camera used for recording physical perimeter of building

There is other text that goes here why is it justifying it so far right?

Software Security

This is the software Stuff

A user password policy change window shown in Windows XP

Social Employee Security

This is social engineering prevention (dont give out passwords)

Other Security measures

References

Some companies have statements of security as shown here: http://www.total.com/static/en/medias/topic1608/pol-sur-001_security_policy12.pdf

picture: http://www.rsscctv.com/images/P/200x200_tkc215_300%2520WEB.jpg

password change policy: http://support.netmail.sg/images/changepwd_owa2.gif

password Policy: http://www.sans.org/resources/policies/Password_Policy.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Security

password change pic: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/services/systems_support/images/changepassword2.jpg

See Also

Network firewall

Email Security

Fingerprint Authentication

External Links

Corporate Security

Password Policies