Data Breach Risk Reduction through Perimeter Security and Smart Surfing
Adewale O Adebayo · International Journal of Engineering Research and · 2018
Data breach is probable, damaging and costly to organizations. There is a high probability that a data breach is through some form of hacking. It is, therefore, important to fortify network security and to surf the internet smartly in order to reduce the risk of a data breach, which this research is focused on addressing. Converging views in extant and current literature prescribe that every computer should have installed appropriate firewall and up-to-date antivirus, that network perimeter and network segments within the network should be fortified with appropriate firewall(s) and well configured router(s), and that important servers should be hardened and dedicated to providing only one service. The internet should be surfed with focus and anonymously where acceptable, while avoiding falling victim of scams and malwares.