I recently asked the following question on the IBM for Midsize Businesses group on Linkedin as a basis for discussion and a means to crowdsource some tips and best practices for IT security: Security attacks often arrive unannounced, but a well established security plan and implementation can help mitigate these often costly situations. This discussion, however, aims to offer midsize business leaders guidance on how to protect their business, and their data. The goal of this discussion is to crowdsource 10 steps midsize companies can take to protect their business - taking into account on-site AND their cloud computing environments. Securing the cloud can be a data center challenge, sometimes a software issue, and sometimes a data or device access issue. Your security tips will help create a list from the online community for the online community. Thank you to all who participated in the discussion (full list below) which provided fairly detailed and specific recommendations for