We help to protect your own
Internet security is just like home security. You think about the risks and decide what you want to do about them. This site intention is to give you information about risks first of all and ways to meet them. Unfortunately, there is no way, yet, to get insurance against hackers taking over your PC (just like insurance against common burglary). You have to think about the risks and decide what to do yourself.

SOHO Data Defence

Mission statement

We believe that small and medium size businesses require Information Security as much as big corporations.
  • Main reasons for this beliefe are:
    Impact of a single threat realisation could be fatal for small and medium size business. For example disclosure of customers’ information (virus, hacker attack) could result in legal liabilities (due to Privacy legislation) and loss of customers’ confidence. Any of these could bankrupt small-to-medium size business.
  • Suspension of business for a few days due to degrading of infrastructure could result in loss of business. It could be virus attack that blocks your e-mail access, crash of the very important computer or just fire. If business does not have clear contingency plan than deadlines could be missed and business opportunity lost.
We deliver Information Systems security tailored to the needs of our customers.

Small and medium size businesses need security model that takes into account distinct nature of the threats.

For example:

  • Small and medium size businesses are less likely to be specifically targeted by hackers, but much more vulnerable to Blaster and SoBig type viruses.
  • Patch management for big corporations and small businesses are significantly different issues. We recognise these and other differences and adapt our proposals accordingly.

Technical measures and documents we prepare for our clients target the most dangerous threats, protecting the most important assets, while giving business flexibility in less risky areas.

We believe that

  • Security targets should be achievable
  • Security policy document should be clear and transparent to the staff
  • Procedures should be simple and well itemised
  • Baselines should be feasible

We feel that it is very important that business management understand what proposed measures would protect and against what threats so we always offer training and awareness programs.

Full list of our services is here.

Site news:
  • Site is back and will be updated regularely!
  • Updated: New link in Standards; Why XP SP2 is a MUST, News, Links to free Anti virus added, Dangers updated, Link to the new Personall Firewall review, IPSec advice
  • Added: MS Security Readiness Kit link added , Protection against Computer Hijacking,
  • Energy Secretary fires nuclear security chief apparently for bad information security. More here.
    13 January 2006
    No big virus out breaks for long time.
    3 January 2006