Security Threats

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but yes, threats really do exist (threats that you as a technician cannot ignore). Some very smart and motivated people, often called hackers, want to know what you know. They want your company’s payroll information. They want to know your customers’ credit card numbers. Competitors might want to see you spend some quality downtime rebuilding databases and servers, or a neighbor might have a gripe about limited parking and start sending threatening emails from your account, launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks with your name on them, or stealing your customer records. The problem is, hackers get to attack over and over again until they finally find the weak spot. You have to defend and defend a....