The U.S. Office of Homeland Security recently put out a brochure with some basic security guidelines on how to protect your workplace environment.  Here are some quick tips for IT managers that they included in that document:

1) Implement Defense-in-Depth: a layered defense strategy that includes technical, organizational, and operational controls.

2) Establish clear policies and procedures for employee use of your organization’s information technologies.

3) Implement Technical Defenses: firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Internet content filtering.

4) Update your anti-virus software daily.

5) Regularly download vendor security "patches" for all of your software.

6) Change the manufacturer's default passwords on all of your software.

7) Monitor, log, and analyze successful and attempted intrusions to your systems and networks.

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