What is the biggest network security problem?

Computer and network security continues to be a subject of ongoing concern and I find, that I cannot write enough on this very important business subject and issue.

The overwhelming and continual problem, which compels me to revisit this subject, is that I am continuing to see business owners who just don't take seriously the importance in making sure critical information is well protected rather than the possibility of losing valuable and critical operational data as well as the network being compromised and data being stolen.

Not a week goes by that my company is not confronted with a call, from a business, identifying that their entire network and its data may have been breached and the data compromised.

So why are businesses continuing to experience problems in the area of network security breaches and what should companies do in order to combat network and computer security problems?

Most companies tend to put thousands of dollars into things like anti-virus/anti-malware protection, firewalls, password policies and security procedures. Yet, they fail to do the thing, that will first and foremost tell them what the source of their network security problems may really be, which is take a hard, in-depth look at exactly what the security problems are and where they are coming from.

When called upon, to deal with the issue of network security and a potential breach, the first thing we do is to freeze everything on the network and begin to do a systematic analysis of all activity that has taken place, on the network, over the period of the last month. Now, because the network freeze can and will create system down time, it is always smart to do this on the weekend verses normal business hours and once the process is done, without fail, at least 90 percent of the time, we find what the biggest network security issue is and the problems originate from the company.

- George Bardissi