The greatest fear of any CEO, CIO or CSO is that the security of the sensitive information held by their company has been compromised. The nightmare of all the costs which your company will incur can average out $6.3 million per data breach. Understand these direct and indirect costs on a company.

The "careless employee" presents by far the biggest danger to companies. Careless employees can easily give data thieves access to your company's sensitive information without even knowing it.

Network security policies in place at a company can actually damage, rather than enhance their security. Security measures which are too stringent can lead to employees going around security for convenience's sake. Employees can actually create security vulnerabilities which your IT department may not be able to protect against; because they may be unaware that they exist!

No business today can afford to be left behind technologically when securing stored information. Customer information is highly sought after by would-be data thieves. As a business owner, you need to be informed of the methods employed by data thieves to gain access to your company's information.

Data theft of a company's sensitive information can happen in two ways: physical or online. As a business owner, you need to be informed of the methods employed by data thieves to gain access to your company's information to implement good security practices. Physical security is the first line of defence.

Network security conflicts are going on between a company's IT department and their employees that makes a company more vulnerable to data breaches. As IT departments make password security measures more complex to break, employees weaken the security through their management. Learn how security tokens break this conflict.

There are many different ways in which data thieves use to get at a company's information and the smarter ones will attack from more than one angle: the employees, the computers, the network, even the building. Learn how to secure each of these vulnerabilities.