Soft Secure – Secure your data.

Data is essential to businesses. Whether it is your financial data or your customer and prospect list. Businesses are also connected to the internet, where they are vunerable to virus attacks and hackers. Soft Spot have various services which can help keep both your business and data safe?

Soft Protect -  A Firewall is software or hardware that prevents unauthorised or unwanted communications between computers. Conveniently firewall software is included with most operating systems. SoftSpot can help configure and install these firewalls. A computer virus or malware is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer with the potential to damage or steal data. SoftSpot IT services will install and configure Antivirus software and ensure that the software is set to automatically update. SoftSpot IT has experience of installing and configuring many Antivirus product. Including Free Virus Protection such as AVG, Antivir and  Avast. However many free applications are not lisenced for Business use therefore SoftSpot recommend Kaspersky Antivirus as it is reasonabley priced,  strongly respected and easily scalable.  

Soft  backup -It is essential that any documents and data required for your business is securely backed up. There are many ways you can secure your data including DVD and Tape, accross a network to other computers or a server and even to online repositories. Most operating systems come complete with simple backup software and there are free and paid for alternatives. A good place to start is with the Windows Backup and Restore features. If this is not suitable you may want to try free alternatives like Paragon Backup, Cobian or GFI Backup. Or perhaps the following fully featured paid for packages Norton, or Bounceback. You could also look at online backup resources such as Dropbox, Idrive and Mozy . For fully featured, secure online backup SoftSpot recommends Giggasoft

Soft Encryptions. - To give your data an extra level of security you should consider Encryptions. Encryptions makes your data unreadable unless you have the correct software and password/keys to decrypt the data. You can encrypt single fines or whole hard disks. A great free tool for encryption is Trucrypt alternatively you could look at PGP.