| This is a book about hackers, crackers, phishing, pharming, spammers, scammers, virus-writers, Trojan horses, malware and spyware, and how to keep them out of your company's computer systems. By which I mean the private computers on your employees' desks in the office and at home, and the servers which look after your company's email, file storage and Web site.
Your email and Web servers may be your own machines, housed either on your premises or off-site in what's known as a 'co-location facility'. Or, as is very common, you may be renting space on someone else's servers. The precise arrangements don't matter - if these computers are handling your own information then you need to give consideration to their security, and this book will tell you how. Equally, whether your employees store their document files on their own desktop PCs or on your networked file server, this book will tell you how to keep the hackers away.
All the advice which follows is straightforward, and anyone with a reasonable knowledge of computers and Windows should be able to follow it. I've deliberately avoided recommending procedures or solutions which are complex or expensive. |