The Security Mentor

Leave out the expensive technology that protects against people like James Bond, and you find two techniques to learn from the government that anyone can use.

Disconnect from the Internet

You can't do that with your entire company, but keep that idea in mind as you buy systems. Do your cash registers really need an Internet connection?

Eliminate desktop data storage

You need a reliable network to make this work, but security administration gets a lot easier if everybody's documents live on central file servers instead of on their local hard disks. You can back servers up more easily than desktops to protect against fires and hurricanes, and you can even set them to refuse to talk to any PC that doesn't have up-to-date antivirus software.