In light of the recent tragic school shooting there is a great deal and well deserved talk on how we can make schools safer for students and their staff. As security professionals we have a duty to do everything in our power to make sure that our children are as safe as possible while in school. In the future there may be increases to school security based on National policies however what can schools do now in order to ensure their students and staff are safe?

Passwords are Physically not Secure

What is the one recommendation that your customers are ignoring? It’s not data back-ups, it’s not AV and malware prevention, but it is something that is inherently tied to their security. Give up yet? Their password management policy is putting them at risk. I am sure you have seen highly secure passwords that your customers have created written on sticky notes or cards in plain sight at their desks.

Have you ever needed to determine whether your security and surveillance system is analog or IP? Analog and IP systems have completely different strategies for deployment, integration, and resolving any issues with the system. So what do you do to determine if the digital security and surveillance system is an analog system or an IP system? With the transition to IP surveillance well under way, you cannot simply assume every security system is IP based. IP technology easily transitioned into this market by taking analog camera and allowing them to have similar benefits of IP camera through encoders/decoders. This post will tell you what you need to look for to determine if the security and surveillance system is analog or IP based.

While good network security relies on several factors such as: a strong firewall policy with an up to date appliance, across the LAN antivirus installation and potentially web content filtration. There is still a large and very dangerous security gap in many business installations; the USB port.