10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself and Your Computer Repair Services firm to Determine Your Current Level of Risk

10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself and Your Computer Repair Services firm to Determine Your Current Level of Risk

1. What security policies, or any policies, do you have and ENFORCE in your company?
2. Has EVERY employee, especially the receptionist, had security awareness training?
3. Does ANYONE besides the computer consultant and his helpers have ‘domain admins’ privilege or ‘local administrators’ privilege on the desktops?
4. Are ALL the servers, routers, firewalls, desktops (including all applications) patched, especially related to security, to the latest level?
5. If you have internet access, do you at least have a router or firewall with NAT and port blocking?
6. Do you have UP TO DATE spyware, adware, virus scanning software on all systems with auto protect turned on, auto update turned on and with periodic scans scheduled?
7. Are SPAM blocking technologies enabled, and are unwanted attachments and HTML based emails being scanned or blocked?
8. Are the rights and access to company data, applications and systems available to ONLY those employees who need it to get their jobs done?
9. Is ALL vital data being backed up (and restores tested) and is there a disaster recovery plan in place (and tested) for essential applications and systems?
10. Is logging enabled on all systems necessary to alert of a possible security incident, and provide data after the fact?
11. Here is a bonus question, are passwords complex, hidden and changed frequently?

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