Re: Security for home PCs

[jkrueger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> Our home computers are not used exclusively for dialing into the office &
funding for security typically comes out of our personal budgets, and many home
computer users lack the same awareness of security topics that the central MIS
is supposed to have, and everyone is an expert until they get burned, so they
are not going to pay attention to any advice from MIS anyway.

We need to all make a concerted effort to make sure anyone accessing our systems
from home has a basic awareness of PC security and viruses.  Protection in the
home does not need to be costly.  Several shareware packages that I highly
recommend are:
   ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonealarm.com/ - a personal firewall that can be
downloaded and setup up very easily
   Housecall.Antivirus - http://housecall.antivirus.com/ - An online virus
scanning service that can check out a PC
   ShieldsUp - //grc.com/default.htm - runs a set of tests to find out just how
exposed a PC is
Employees who can't adhere to a base security policy should NOT be given home
access to our systems!!!  (Sorry, about the lecture, but you hit one of my hot
buttons...)

Janet Krueger
Andrews Consulting Group


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