Enterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesses: Building Security Systems, in Plain English

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D. CherryEnterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesseshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8628-9_1

1. Why IT Security Matters

Denny Cherry¹  

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Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, LLC, Oceanside, CA, USA

 

Information technology (IT) security is one of the most ignored parts of IT. IT security should be considered a subset of physical security. When it is, the company is much less likely to ignore IT security processes. You wouldn’t leave the company’s front door unlocked, and IT security should have the same level of attention paid to it.

When a company builds a new application, and the budget gets tight, cuts have to be made. For many companies, ...