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Story: Countering corporate espionage

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Posted by: harpless (Monday 7 January 2008, 11:59 PM)

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There are simple solutions

I don't think a small company specifically needs a budget to specifically fight online espionage; all the threats listed can be prevented by applying simple solutions. allocating access levels is one of them.
If you recieve a suspect email from a percieved partner etc, why not comfirm it with a phone call? Trojan horses can be effectively fought off by existing anti-virus software.
Google hacking is unthinkable, why would you put sensitive data on a publicly accessible network?

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