Thursday, 15 October 2009

CNIL:10 tips for securing your information system


While malware and viruses multiply, and that cases of phishing expand each day a little more of their tentacles, ensuring secure computers in its business (or home) is essential, if not vital.However, this security can only be optimal if we do not feel concerned about security, and therefore not accountable. The National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) has recently issued 10 tips for securing its information system.For businesses, organizations and agencies handling sensitive data, these tips can still be partially adopted by private individuals. The 10 councils CNIL:

1.Adopting a policy of strict password: individual password difficult to guess and secrecy. 2.Develop a procedure for creating and deleting user accounts

3.Sécuriser workstations: the positions of agents must be configured so that they lock automatically after a period of inactivity (10 minutes)

4.Identify exactly who can access files

5.Veiller to privacy vis-à-vis providers

6.Sécuriser local network: An information system must be secure vis-à-vis external attacks 7.Sécuriser l 'physical access to premises

8.Anticipating the risk of loss or disclosure of data

9.Anticiper formalize a policy and system security information

10.Educate users to "information risk" and the law "and Freedoms"