COMPANY'S DATA PROTECTION IN THE NETWORK AND IN THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

This article is intended primarily for company managers and their IT managers, with the aim of familiarizing them with the danger, necessity and the ways to protect themselves and the entire company's computer network from different threats; threats that endanger online business and Internet environment. Theft by competitive companies or ruining of business-company’s data are constant threats to all corporate computer network systems, regardless whether the network is of a local character or is connected to the Internet. The necessity to protect computers and networks is still the marginal issue in minds of many of managers. The problem is that investments in equipment and software for network protection, as well as their upgrading, don’t bring any obvious benefit to the company. In many companies, managers even at the highest management level consider the protection as unimportant and unnecessary, of course - until the problem appears. But, then, it is too late for the company not to suffer the damage in the financial and/or other ways. This work describes esential elements and methods of the computer system’s protection and protection of computer networks.