System Security



System Security

Security Measures

All companies, regardless of its size, structure and turnover, are aware of the importance of implementing a series of policies aimed at ensuring the security of the business continuity in case of occurrence of incidents, failures, malicious activities by others, accidental loss or disaster affecting the data and information that are stored and processed, either through computer systems and in other media, like paper.

Computer incident cases in the past caused significant economic damages, have been opening our eyes to many companies for the need to establish mechanisms to protect information stored and processed in the computer equipment of external events (intentional and / or accidental ). The importance of protecting information from a company's internal orbit: restricted access to certain documents by certain employees, signing confidentiality clauses by staff, establishing policies and procedures backup and recovery of data or the external storage of information. These are some of the important measures that could be adopted in order to ensure data security.

Account Password

Passwords are often the only security for account access like e-mail and websites. It is therefore essential to choose a good password. Unfortunately, far too often weak passwords chosen. Computer users often think that many hackers try to obscure bugs and backdoors in the hope somewhere inside. The disturbing fact is that most of all the hacks as possible by allowing users to easily guessed passwords. Who is safe to surf, do well to be assured that his passwords not guessable (Samuel Leffler, 1990).

The boards of someone's password is usually done by a computer to provide a large list of possible passwords and then this program try every password on the server. In the simplest case, there is a list of dictionary, hence the term "dictionary attack" for this method is used. Many of ...