Safety of vital business data related to customer profiles and business transactions should always be a prime consideration for your business organization to retain its credibility. This is where experienced network and security professionals come into play. They should be well familiar with the many possibilities of data compromise.
Those using computers are aware of the menace of virus attacks on web servers and key e-commerce databases. But you should also be wary of security breaches that are often perpetrated by insiders. So what can you do to enhance data security? Here we deal with the risk of data theft during transit and Storage.
SSL (or secure socket layer) protocol is a well proven method to protect business data over the internet. Employing SSL for the purpose of securing confidential data like credit card numbers provides protection as the data is passed from intranet to the internet.
Once it reaches its destination – essentially a web server – the encryption gets stripped away. This leaves the piece of data in a plain-text format as it happens to traverse the local area network, application servers, as well as databases.
The data can be vulnerable to attacks since it’s quite easily readable at this point of transit and also in storage. One of the most reliable ways of providing the much desired protection is via encryption, which instead of getting ‘tripped off’ at the web server, continues to stay with your business data even as it’s transferred online or gets stored in a database.
I am an entrepreneur myself and i completely agree with the points put forth in this article. i have recently set up a network of my own and i think following your advice will keep my business transactions online safe.