Cyber-crime is estimated to cost the UK economy as much as £19bn to £27bn every year, yet many companies are still unsure about the risk to their business associated with cyber attacks. Some might feel that this is a problem only encountered by large organisations, but research shows that small to medium sized organisations are also prone to attack. The primary motivation for cyber crime is financial gain, but espionage and theft of intellectual property are arguably more important factors for high-tech companies.
The white paper agues that it requires a number of concerted actions to improve security. It is a spectrum of risk, and different security controls apply to different parts.
The first key point is that the ISO/IEC 27001 information security standard currently offers the best framework for security. The second is that there are accepted ways for hardening IT security on Linux-based systems, and applications such as CogniDox can use (and depend on) this functionality. However, that still leaves a major gap in solving the problems of Information Security, and the paper concludes by demonstrating how security-related features in CogniDox can address these problems.
You can find the white paper in the Library section (under Documents) on the Cognidox website or you can open/save the PDF file directly from this link. Registration is not required to access the document.
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