Introduction

Securing your business and personal communications is crucial to survival in a world heavily reliant on communications technology. Many of the communications technologies used today can potentially expose important information to anyone savvy or motivated enough to break into your systems or eavesdrop on wireless communications. This is because an overwhelming percentage of threats and hazards come from connections to the outside world in the forms of email, Internet access, wireless devices, and so forth. These connections can expose your systems to harmful predators in pursuit of access to mission-critical business or personal information about products, services, business partners, clients, co-workers, friends, and more. Lax communications ...

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