Means of information protection

Today information is one of the extremely important factors of success of any company’s work. Average cost of a single leak of information in the world is about 5,3 million dollars. That’s why the issue of information security is getting more and more actual and its solving should not be delayed.
All means of information security can be divided into two categories: legal methods that include creation of legal acts that regulate relations in the sphere of information security, and organizational and technical methods including creation of means of information protection.
Most popular methods of information protection include the following:
Means of identification and authentication
Identification helps determine who is the subject by network name and other attributes, and authentication in its turn is a verification of the subject for example with help of password, biometric marks, electronic key etc. authorization is a means that includes creation of groups of users with different rights for data access. Administration function includes providing users with various identification features and determining of the amount of available actions.
Means of information encryption
Information encryption helps provide its privacy even in case of unauthorized data access. It is important that the used information encryption means has a high level of cryptographic. There are many methods of cryptography, and each of them has certain advantages.
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Its function is to protect information streams during their transmission through open communication channels.
Check of the integrity of disks contents.
Such check helps discover any changes in files as well as their opening or deleting and reveal activity of viruses or unauthorized data access.