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Benefits of secure computing
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Protect yourself - Civil liability
You may be held legally liable to compensate a third party should they experience financial damage or distress as a result of their personal data being stolen from you or leaked by you. -
Protect your credibility - Compliance
You may require compliancy with the Data Protection Act, the FSA, SOX or other regulatory standards. Each of these bodies stipulates that certain measures be taken to protect the data on your network. -
Protect your reputation - Spam
A common use for infected systems is to join them to a botnet (a collection of infected machines which takes orders from a command server) and use them to send out spam. This spam can be traced back to you, your server could be blacklisted and you could be unable to send email. -
Protect your income - Competitive advantage
There are a number of “hackers-for-hire” advertising their services on the internet selling their skills in breaking into company’s servers to steal client databases, proprietary software, merger and acquisition information, personnel details et al. -
Protect your business - Blackmail
A seldom-reported source of income for “hackers” is to·break into your server, change all your passwords and lock you out of it. The password is then sold back to you. Note: the “hackers” may implant a backdoor program on your server so that they can repeat the exercise at will. -
Protect your investment - Free storage
Your server’s harddrive space is used (or sold on) to house the hacker's video clips, music collections, pirated software or worse. Your server or computer then becomes continuously slow and your internet connection speeds deteriorate due to the number of people connecting to your server in order to download the offered wares.
