Enterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesses

Understand the IT security features that are needed to secure the IT infrastructure of a small to medium-size business. This book will give IT managers and executives a solid understanding of the different technology solutions that their business relies uponor should be employingin order to make reasoned decisions regarding the implementation of those features. Coverage includes multi-factor authentication, firewalls, zero-trust environments, network segmentation, remote access solutions, and the people aspects of security that are often overlooked and represent an organization's biggest vulnerability.
Chapters on the various technologies such as multi-factor authentication and zero-trust environments explain in plain English the values and benefits that each technology provides. Clear technical explanations are accompanied by business case explanations that explain the why of each technology and when each technology should be implemented. You will come away equipped to have business-driven discussions with your IT staff that allow for a productive balancing of the need for security with the need to do business and drive profits.

You Will Learn

• The importance of multi-factor authentication
• The limits of what multi-factor authentication can protect
• How firewalls are used to protect your company from attackers
• What zero-trust environments are and what they mean
• Whether zero-trust networks are what is needed to secure your own environment
• The security benefits from implementing a network segmentation policy

• The best ways to access files and resources from remote locations outside the office
  Who This Book Is For
  Managers and executives at small to medium-size businesses who want to understand the core aspects of IT security on which their businessrelies, business leaders who want to be able to follow along with and engage in discussions with IT professionals about security features, and leaders who are tasked with making decisions on which IT security features to implement

  Explains technical solutions using plain English Covers best practices using language a non-technical person will understand Introduces enterprise-level features to small and medium size businesses

  Autorentext

  Denny Cherry has been working in the information technology field for ore than 20 years and has written almost a dozen IT books and hundreds of articles for various publications, including Inc., MSDN Magazine, and SQL Server Magazine, as well as having spoken at dozens of conferences around the world. He holds the Microsoft Certified Master certification, has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award annually for more than 15 years, and has been awarded the VMware vExpert award six times. His public speaking started at local events in Southern California where he lives with his wife and their pet bunny rabbits and has expanded out to events worldwide. Speaking at conferences has taken Denny to six continents and over a dozen countries where he speaks at both small local events as well as large industry and corporate events.

  Inhalt

Introduction.- Part I. The Infrastructure.- 1. Why IT Security Matters.- 2. Network Design.- 3. Firewalls.- 4. Distributed Denial of Service.- 5. Remote Connectivity.- .- Part II. The Computers.- 6. Operating System Security.- 7. Multi-Factor Authentication.- 8. Zero Trust Environments.- Part III. The People.- 9. Protection Against the Weakest Security Link.- 10. Employee Training.