Considering information security as a serious problem by the management of companies could be a step in the right direction.  In addition, paying adequately funding the IT team their needs of money also helps us knowing determine where the risk is in order to fix the issues in our networks.  IT needs an independent budget. It must does not necessarily need to be a big one, but only not to compare it it cannot be compared with simply buying new computers or something else.  Finally, tools like firewalls are necessary and help in network security.  Due to the low cost of these tools, companies tend to use them instead of IT experts.  However, we cannot only depend on them.