10 Wild IT Security Tricks That Actually Work


Bangalore: With the outburst of powerful devices that are capable of remotely accessing customer’s private information, sensitive emails, and other protected data’s- corporate’s must not risk their network and endpoint securities with experiments and new introductions that may alter the whole security balance. But with constant evolution of security threats, companies need to improvise on the ideas by simply thinking from outside the environment. These outside security ideas certainly can work magic but sadly they are considered too offbeat to be deployed. So with that here is the list that features 10 crazy IT security tricks that actually work.

#1. Renaming admins:

For obvious reasons this security step is often considered as useless or a waste, but security geeks proves that this is a simple security strategy that actually can work. Fact is that attackers often before entering the network, uses account or admin names within the organization to enter the system, so that he can deploy a successful hacking campaign. But if the user tends to change the admin name, then it’s of course, pretty hard for the hacker to hack into the network. Another advantage is that security officials can monitor and easily note down the hacking attempts on the original account names as they are no longer of use.