We may say that computer is one of greatest inventions in human beings’ development history. Computer has stepped into our life and provided us with convenience and efficiency in life and work. Recently all types of businesses including services, retail, manufacture, etc. need computer to help to complete task and improve working efficiency. Let me give you some examples about how the computer has become a dispensable part of our life. The computer and the Internet provide us with a platform and a channel to communicate with others by sending emails or chatting on IM chat tools. Staffs in companies make use of the computer and the Internet for storing, transmitting and analyzing data and information, the management can conduct video conference thousands miles away. The computer and the Internet can present news and novel things happened or happening in other countries to them.

However, everything in the world is not ideal, so is the computer. People are all enjoying the advantages brought about by the computer so that they almost disregard its pit-falls. So what are the pitfalls? As the processing of data and information are now executed by the computer, having access to company’s confidential and sensitive files has become easier for hackers, and data and information theft has become one of greatest pitfalls that will ruin people’s life and work. If you operated a business, what you need to beware of is the importance of company’s sensitive and confidential data and information. You should know what it means when you leave the important data and information to unreliable employees and the consequence of company’s data and information falling into wrong hands. Once your data and information were disclosed by your employees or stolen by hackers, they may be fallen into competitors.

One reason why many businesses face the risks of data and information loss and leakage is that most businesses administrators neglect to take comprehensive and proper measures to protect the information and data. To prevent suffering data loss and information leakage caused by lack of protection measures, you need to password protect important data and information with effective and powerful data security solution. What you can do now is to install folder protection software which can be used to password protect folders in PC or external portable storage devices, so that the important information and data in the folder are under protection from unauthorized access. As for the folders shared on LAN, you can use the special protection solution to encrypt the folder, and assign access permissions to different users according to your needs. Often, you can use the built-in feature of operating system to set password for shared folder, while this kind of protection is relatively less secure than the professional shared folder protection software.