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Church Virus Protection – 10 Ways To Improve Your Data Security
This day in age many churches are utilizing the resources the internet has to offer to spread the word and information on events to their partition, but they are unaware of the danger that their office computer is in from viruses and spyware attacks that are commonplace in the digital world.
If a church office computer contracts one of these viruses that data stored on your churches computer files can be compromised, stolen, or lost without virus protection in place. Statics show 80% of the time the church in question has not implemented any virus protection at all.
While these kind of attacks happen more often then most are aware of there are a few things that can be done to assure that your churches files and information is protected.
In order to help improve your church virus protection here are 10 ways to prevent hackers from infiltrating your system.
Install reliable anti-virus software (this is the best way to prevent viruses)
Never automatically open email attachments. Many times hackers will send a virus via email. All you have to do is open this email and your are infected
Scan all incoming email attachments before opening them. Anti-Virus protection will be able to alert you if any suspicious code exist within the attachment that could endanger your church data security
Configure anti-virus software to automatically boot when you start you computer. This works well because you will never forget to turn on the ant-virus software.
Update your anti-virus software frequently. By doing this church is assured protection from new viruses that arise.
Do not download programs from the Web from sites that you do not trust especially freeware or shareware sites, which are notorious for containing malicious scripts.
Do not boot with a disk in the drive. If the computer is booted with a disk in the drive it will automatically loads the disk. If the disk is infected it will load on to the computer without the option to scan it.
Do not share disk or usb memory drives. You do not know what or where the other person has been downloading from and you may get exposed.
You should always scan disks before using them. Anti-virus software will be able to determine whether or not a disk has been infected or not and in most cases remove the files that are corrupt.
Use common sense when using the internet. If you feel there is something wrong with a site or receive an email from someone you are not sure of their intent then chances are something is not right.
Following these 10 steps will substantially improve your church virus protection. By preventing a virus to infect your PC you protect your church and all your members. No church wants to find out that a malicious virus has wiped out all the office records. Utilizing these 10 steps will assure that this never happens.
Top Ecommerce Hosting Considerations to Keep in Mind
With businesses expanding their markets online nowadays, it is just normal that different website hosting companies provide special options for their patrons. Especially since these enterprises tend to have special needs. Demands tend to spike up for a package that will let an entrepreneur offer as much features and services they can in their sites, making it important for an ecommerce hosting to be available.
If you are still quite new in this department, you may be wondering what exactly an ecommerce hosting is. For those who are still learning the jargon, this term refers to the kind of hosting package commercial websites need. As you may know very well, a lot of businesses are already using the internet to sell and profit more. And as these websites need the different features to support their catalogues and download options among many others. They have to find not only the right website builder for the task, but also the kind of servers, software, applications, and even programming language support to achieve what they want in their site.
An ecommerce hosting is fitted for this purpose. However, they may differ in various features, especially since not all businesses offer the same thing. A retail business may not need what a service-providing company requires in their website, so learning what are the most important considerations when choosing an ecommerce website hosting package would be important for any thorough entrepreneur.
But what are these things that you need to keep in mind? Here are some examples:
1. Ample amount of disk space
If you are going to upload a good amount of information on your site to cater to your customers, it is very important that you have enough space for everything. Stuff like a shopping cart and product catalog needs a lot of room, especially if you have tons of items for sale. Sure, you may go over the limit and just pay for the fines, but also keep in mind that there are better packages that can give you more space without the extra payment, so why not look for those opportunities instead?
1. Enough bandwidth
Of course, being an entrepreneur, you are looking forward to attracting a good amount of traffic to your website; besides, this is one of the ways you can make a sale. This is why planning ahead is important if you want to succeed, because even if your venture is still small, chances are, you can generate a good amount of traffic one way or another. So, to cater to that amount of activity, your site needs to be capable enough of handling the influx of clicks and page impressions. Or else, your website can crash and be the very reason why you can’t profit from the great thing that is happening.
1. The server
This is probably the most important of them all because it can determine a lot for you. It can help you save and make a more efficient website for starters.
What kind of server should you use?
You see, there are different kinds of these available, and some can give you better performance than others. It may seem too technical for someone who’s inexperienced, but your website builder can surely lend you a hand and walk you through in choosing one of these things.
These three are just the most basic things you should keep in mind when choosing an ecommerce website hosting offer. Again, if things tend to be too difficult and technical for you, you can always ask for assistance from website builder firms, like Pace Work Technologies. They will surely know what you need.
Proper Data Security And Storage Methods (Page 1 of 2)
The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requires that any merchant who accepts, processes, stores, transmits sensitive credit card information must do everything possible to protect and guard that data. Proper data security and storage, however, can be a difficult thing to do in-house.
Data security and storage comprise a major portion of the PCI DSS and is also a necessary part of maintaining trust with your customers. In an age where personal information is a valuable commodity, customers need to know that their transactions are secure and you have a priority on guarding their personal data.
The third requirement of the PCI DSS states simply: “Protect stored cardholder data.” This may be a simple thing to say, but that doesn’t necessarily make it an easy thing to implement, nor does it downplay the importance. There are quite a few individual security controls that are required before you can say that you have created the proper data security and storage environment.
The first step is encryption. If you must store sensitive information on your own system you must encrypt it. This is a basic step because if a criminal intruder should happen to bypass all the other security measures that are in place, all they will find on your system are strings of random gibberish that are useless without the encryption key.
The next step is to limit the amount of cardholder data on your system. This includes only keeping the data that is absolutely necessary for legal, business, or regulatory purposes. When you don’t need it anymore, get rid of it. The less you have that is worth stealing, the less of a target you become. There are also a few things you’re not allowed to store at all. These include the full contents of any track from the magnetic stripe (like the card verification code or PIN verification value), or the three or four digit validation codes or personal identification numbers.
Of course, even if you’ve taken the steps to electronically protect data by encrypting it, there’s still the possibility that someone inside the company could steal or wrongfully employ the encryption keys. For that reason, the third requirement of the PCI DSS also mandates protecting those keys against misuse and disclosure.
Access to these keys must be restricted to the fewest number of people possible. These keys must also be stored in as few places as possible. Backups are, of course, necessary, but if you end up backing it up in too many places, you’re likely to forget where they all are, or accidentally place one where someone with criminal intentions can get a hold of it.
Requirement numbers seven, eight, and nine also deal with limiting physical access to cardholder data. These mandate that you restrict access to this data by to business need-to-know, and that you assign unique IDs to each person with computer access. These are measures that help ensure that you can trace the source of your problem, should a breach occur.