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"Declare an Orange Alert\n\nYour best IT pro is powerless if employees are blowing holes in your security. \u201CYour people need to know what exposes data,\u201D says David Stelzl, author of Data@Risk and founder of the consultancy Stelzl in Charlotte. Get them up to speed with security-awareness training in a program such as SANS Securing the Human, says David Davenport, CEO of MotherG, a managed IT services firm in Chicago.\nLock Down Your Phone\n\nYou risk a lot if you talk business on the same device your kids use to download games. A rogue program, says Stelzl, could hack into your phone and \u201Csee your calendar, see you through a camera without you knowing it, and listen to you through the microphone.\u201D He recommends Check Point\u2019s Mobile Threat Prevention, which detects malicious apps, and Capsule, which helps create a secure mobile environment.\nA Firewall\u2014and More\n\nStrengthen your firewall with intrusion prevention tools and consider adding DPI-SSL services, which pre-approve Internet traffic before it gets to you. To deal with those who slip past the wall, some larger companies are increasingly using behavior-based analytics and access controls. Together, these tools collect data to see how users are operating inside the network\u2014and identify and isolate bad actors quickly.\nFor more on cybersecurity, watch this Fortune video:\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\nConfer With Competitors\n\nBattening down the hatches on your own will get you only so far. Your IT team should be sharing best practices and intel with friendly members of your industry. One way is through Security Colony, a portal where firms can exchange ideas for a subscription fee of $2,000 a year. Even better, free your IT team from crisis control for a day or two and send them to a conference where they can talk shop. It\u2019ll cost a lot less than undoing the damage of a major hack.\nAvoid Hostage Situations \n\nMore hackers realize there\u2019s big money in taking over the computers of firms and demanding cash to set the data free. McAfee Labs reported a 165% uptick in ransomware in one recent quarter. Davenport recommends a technology called OpenDNS. It\u2019ll prevent you from stumbling onto hackers\u2019 sites where you might otherwise download malware. It filters the good sites from the bad,\u201D he says.\nA version of this article appears in the March 15, 2016 issue of Fortune."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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