How much would an IT Security Breach cost your company in Public Relations and Legal Damages?

The answer to that question is virtually impossible to calculate.

The real answer is: You don’t ever want to find out. Don’t let your company become one of the real-life IT security disasters with devastating public relations consequences that destroys customer trust and could also cost millions of dollars in fines and law suits.

IT Security Protection Requires Several Layers

Organizations need to have several layers of security protection in place to reduce the risk of security breaches. Removing Administrative Rights from your PCs is an added layer of protection that will help halt breaches that could otherwise occur.

A least privileges approach protects your distributed desktop environment against malware and malicious intent to change security settings and disable other security solutions. Implementing a locked down environment is also a key component in complying with various regulatory and compliance initiatives. For Enterprises seeking to secure desktops and laptops, the desktop refresh to Windows 7 can be used as a way to roll out a privilege management solution allowing changes in how privileges are managed on the endpoint. Eliminating the local logged on user’s need to have full local administrator rights. As an added bonus studies have shown that a locked down environment is more cost effective to support because as the end users are less likely to make unnecessary changes to the core system configuration.

Learn more about how you can remove administrator rights and manage a least privileges environment.

The article discussing the recent RSA SecurID Security Breach said it best: having breadth of security technologies in place is key. Locked down environments managed with a commercial privilege management solution is an added layer of protection that will help mitigate security risks.