Homeland security, airport security, Internet security – these days we’re literally inundated with a need to protect ourselves and our property from non-stop bombardment of potentially damaging attacks by unknown sources and entities lurking somewhere out there. This is reality of world in which we live today. We can’t just lock ourselves up in our homes and wish problems away. Life must go on. What we’ve got to do is fight back. And we have to protect ourselves best way that we can.
Fortunately, security is big business these days. There really is no end to security options that are available on free market. And when it comes to protecting your computer system, your options are limited only by balance in your checking account.
So much of our non-sleep time is spent on computer. Think about your own situation. If you’re running a small business, especially when you’re just starting out, PC often is your only other partner in office. You entrust this partner with every crucial component of your business – your accounting, your inventory, your CRM, your communication, your vital documents, your sales and marketing information, your project management, even your on-line store.
You’re handing off quite a lot of responsibility to this partner. Granted, it’s a machine, and it’s got internal capacity to handle such an enormous responsibility. But even most powerful of personal computers is vulnerable if it’s not given protection it needs to survive in this world of never-ending assault.
Viruses, hackers, SPAM, pop-ups, Trojans and more are out there lurking, waiting to bring each and every unprotected computer system to its knees.
And you might not realize this, but there are programs out there that can log your keystrokes. Don’t understand implications of this? Well, every time you enter your login name, your passwords, your credit card numbers, loggers capture and store keystroke sequence. If you ever find unauthorized transactions on your credit cards, your account numbers might very well have been stolen by someone using a keystroke logger.