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Carefully Monitor Your Applications That Have Access to Data: Applications are kind of
tricky. They are a much needed tool that businesses use to maintain their organization and
productivity in order to run a successful and professional operation, but applications also have
the unfortunate ability to jeopardize any important data. In many situations, most applications
have access to certain critical data just by being on the same hard drive.

Due to this, many hackers find this to be the golden opportunity to hack into and steal data. For
hackers, it is much easier to gain access to data through secure applications rather than a
business’s firewall. Since applications are a much needed tool, the best thing a business can do
it monitor them carefully. McAfee runs a great program--McAfee Application Data Monitor--that
provides users with application-layer monitoring that prevents any and all types of threats, such
as fraud and data loss.

Whether you invest in a program or hire a professional, this step is crucial for better cyber
security.

Create Specific Access Controls: Once you have successfully found a source to monitor any
applications that have direct access to important data, it is time to create specific access
controls.

This is a necessary step for better cyber security since it will limit the number of users that have
access to important data.

This step does take time since it requires those in charge to sit down and come up with a list of
workers who are allowed to have access to certain applications and the data it exposes, and
then further decide which workers only need the applications that are central to their work.

By taking the time to thoroughly sort through and create specific access controls, a business’s
data will only become more secure and its risk of getting hacked will significantly decrease.

By practicing the above methods of cyber security, you’ll never have to worry if your business
will take a big hit from an experienced hacker. Safeguard your business and implement the
proper cyber security needed to ward off hackers, viruses, and phishing emails and calls.

About the Author

Tim Green has been designing cutting edge OTT and IPTV solutions since
2005. The founder and CIO of TikiLIVE, Tim has bootstrapped the small
company from a concept and turned it into an industry leader in just over 8
years. When he is not designing cool modules for TikiLIVE, he enjoys blue
water free dive spear fishing from his front yard in the Florida Keys and
throughout the Caribbean.

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