Personal computers demand personal responsibility for information technology management. Many of the above business issues could be mitigated to a great extent through centralized or professional information technology management techniques. However, the scale of these issues is immense when one considers the number of people, the locations, travel, and other factors that drive the complexity of issues and responses. There is, however a short list of information technology implications that can be addressed to limit exposure.
- Provide education, policy, and means for backup, archive and recovery of personal computer-based data and systems.
- For laptop machines, provide hard drive encryption software and encourage the use of removable hard drives that can be encrypted and packed separately.
- Employ desktop computer monitoring software to identify failing hard drives and proactively replace them.
- Facilitate access to mainframe data stores to assure data integrity.
- Provide education and means for continually upgraded virus detection at the desktop, server, and mail gateway.
- Provide education, policy and means to assure data privacy in network environments.
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