Protect your employee workstations by enabling password-protected screen savers to prevent snooping. Require that each employee use a virus checker and observe caution when downloading anything from the Internet.

Your networks and its resources are the primary communications medium for the entire company. If a hacker gains access to or control of your networks, he or she has access to all or most company data.

A major asset of any company is the information it organizes and disseminates. A hacker's ultimate goal is to discover this information, as well as tamper with the networks and methods that help to create and communicate the information.

Your World Wide Web, email, and FTP servers are vulnerable to several types of intrusions. Typically, servers provide storage for the network infrastructure, and act as the hub. They also control overall system security. Hackers try to gain access to server resources, because they can then access and then control other resources.