Business vs Personal

General Comparison
For businesses, IT security is needed to protect against data theft, network downtime, data loss, and espionage. Individuals must use IT security measures to protect themselves against identify theft. Methods for doing so differ on scale and scope depending on the need. Corporations need extensive budgets, facilities, and personel. Important for them is deciding what specifically needs to be protected. Due to the cost, the protection network generally cannot extend to everything. Social security numbers and personal information may be heavily protected while a calendar or schedule will matter much less. Most individuals simply want to protect their personal information and documents. Luckily, intruders are not generally focussed on everyday individuals but rather on a firm with data of many or on occasion that of a high profile individual. The average user can get by with an anti-virus program, which often doubles as anti-malaware/spyware and pop-up blocker, and the basic firewall established through a cable/dsl model.

Free Programs
AVG, Avast, and MalawareBytes are free programs that may be useful to users who are currently unprotected.

See the most current personal IT security issues below:
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