Question

Information and knowledge management systems are vulnerable to technical, organisational, and environmental threats from internal and external sources. The weakest link in the chain is poor system management. Suggest technologies and tools to management for protecting a firm’s information resources.

Answer 1

There are many technologies and tools which are being used for protecting a firm's information resources. Various high security softwares are also there which provide high level of securities to the firms.

There are various identity management and authentication services, firewalls, antivirus softwares, and many more.

Data Loss Prevention also provide high level of securities to the data and information of the firm which prevent data vulnerability.

Endpoint Protection is an endpoint security software which will provide a strong level of protection to the IP/TCP network of the device.

Mobile Device Management block the unknown devices, provide data encryption, provide strong security to browsers and many such protection.

Encryption software provide a strong level of endpoint encryption and authentication and also integrates with other security tools in order to provide a strong level of securities for the information resources of the firm.

Enterprise content management provide an intelligent encryption of all the data, secure auditing and reporting, highly secure storage and many more functions regarding security of information resources of the firm.

Human resource information system also provide a high level of securities to the HR related information resources.