The number one concern for businesses, large and small, across the globe is the security of their data. With ransomware and spyware attacks seemingly able to infiltrate the most complex of networks in some the world’s largest organization’s, it can seem like a hopeless task trying to protect your minuscule company. However, there are three fundamental ways in which you can ensure your business is as secure as possible, and they are not as difficult to implement as you might think.
Educate Your Staff
It won’t come as any great surprise that the major cause of cyber attacks getting through and being able to harm a business is because of human error. How many times have you been warned not to open an attachment from an email you weren’t expecting or not to accept a random pop up that just appeared on your laptop screen? Nevertheless time and time again this is what people do, and they inadvertently unleash a worm or piece of ransomware that corrupts file after file of sensitive data within the company’s network.
It’s vital that you set up refresher sessions every quarter for your staff warning them of what to look out for in a cyber attack. This way you can negate the human error aspect from any potential online crime that may come your company’s way. Image Credit
Outsource
If you don’t have the relevant expertise in-house to deal with your cybersecurity concerns, it may be a wise investment to source a specialist company off-site to deal with your data protection, security, and privacy issues. These companies are also acutely aware of the compliance that your business will need to work towards. If you ask industry experts, you’ll see how safeguarding the CUI is of paramount importance in the twenty-first century. You could, of course, hire in-house, but outsourcing often makes the most financial sense for small to medium businesses.
The specialists you outsource to will keep abreast of all relevant and new legislation as this is their sole focus. You can then be freed up to concentrate on the implementation of your business vision and strive to move your company forward. Artificial intelligence and machine learning programs could also end up doing a lot of basic and even advanced work for you in the future instead of outsourcing to other professionals.
Prepare For The Worst
Should the worst happen and you find that your business has lost its data, you need a method of retrieval. By being prepared and backing up your data regularly, you’ll be able to retrieve your most sensitive data in minutes. It also pays to make any potential hacker’s job more difficult. If you encrypt data, this may be enough of a deterrent for a cyber criminal, and they will move on in a similar way as a burglar scouting out a potential property to rob. Take a look at the cybersecurity checklist available at https://www.utah.gov/beready/business/documents/BRUCyberSecurityChecklist.pdf and see how secure your company really is.
Cybersecurity is only going to become even more prominent in the twenty first century. It’s vital that you jump on the bandwagon now and futureproof your company’s data should the worst occur.
I hope you enjoyed this article about smart ways to protect your company from cyber crime and hacking.
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