The main security is backing up all of the data maybe once a day, week, month, but small increments every day or every week then have a one big save once a week or month. But it is good to have an onsite and offsite storage just in case of emergency. Once a day to save small increments would be great so the data is not lost and once a week, do full backup for security, and professional reasons. As far as offsite backup you could do it once a week also so that data is not lost. Passwords are an easy way of getting into the computers and get all kinds of things. Like in http://www.itproportal.com/2013/08/06/7-steps-for-building-a-secure-web-application/ there are algorithms that can used and are pretty good for example SCRYPT and PBKDF2 are good according to the article but there may be even more that are good. Plus some of the banks have this if not all, security questions and passwords that are hard to access but sometimes as passwords people can use pictures as passwords, but the picture would be shown randomly so no one can guess the picture. …show more content…
The Software firewall is more for users and the people can update them and can check what they want or what they don’t want but in a lot of cases people themselves really don’t know what to do with a firewall. Hardware firewall, is more expensive, harder for work with and more over all a pain to work with, so the bank would have to hire an IT guy just for the firewall. But if the bank wants the best, go with the hardware firewall and hire someone that knows how to configure the firewall and how to do everything.