Your Company Needs Least Privilege Access
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What type of company are you running? No matter your answer, you can benefit from applying the least privilege access principle to your business when it comes to access to your computer system and files. Any company that has financial information or customer information in the databases is going to be able to benefit from this. If you are in the medical field, you can be sure that you want to limit the access that employees have to records and financial information. As you can see, just about every company in existence needs to have some type of system in place that will reduce the number of people with access to sensitive files.
Of course, it isn’t fear of your own employees that should spur you to adding the least privilege concept to your own company! Most of the time, you will be able to trust the people you hire, and most of them won’t even consider accessing areas of the system that they shouldn’t. However, they might use your work computers to access the net or to install their own software. This can unleash some dangers that they might not even be aware exist. With all of the malicious viruses, malware, spyware and hackers out there today, every time someone accesses the web, they are creating a small breach in your security. Read more…