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4 Ways To Protect Your Business Against Cyber Attacks

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January 16, 2020
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These days, businesses have a lot more to worry about than just stiff competition and fickle customers. Today, they also have to worry about high tech threats like hackers, malware, viruses and cyber criminals. If you don’t take the proper steps to stop these threats before the manifest, your business will pay the toll. You may even be forced out of business entirely. You need to institute strategies to protect your business against cyber-attacks.

Encryption

One of the ways businesses are victimized in this era of digital crime is through data theft. If you can steal a company’s customer data, you can use that data to defraud those customers of thousands of dollars. One of the only ways to ensure this does not happen is by making sure your data always remains in an encrypted form on your servers. If the hackers don’t have access to the encryption key, that data will be useless to them.

Training

Another thing that is absolutely crucial to protecting your business from the scourge of cybercrime is proper training for your employees. According to the Harvard Business Review, 60 percent of cyber security events originated from inside the company. As such, investing in cyber intelligence training for your employees can greatly increase your cyber security.

Audits

However, despite your efforts, you may not be able to correct every possible issue before it’s exploited by a cybercriminal. What you need is the assistance of experts. On a routine basis, you should have cyber security audits performed on your networks and machines by cyber security professionals. They may be able to find and patch many issues you may have not known were problems at all.

Updates

Lastly, you need to ensure that all of your software is always updated. This includes the cyber security software you use to scan and detect threats. It includes your firewall. It even includes your internet browsers and office productivity software. Software vendors have a responsibility to update their software to ensure that it cannot be exploited by malicious actors. If you don’t perform the required updates on time, your business could be at risk of being attacked.

Keep in mind that the threats businesses face from the world of cybercrime are constantly evolving. What worked today may not work tomorrow. You need to stay vigilant and proactive about fighting against these threats. Make sure to constantly reassess your status in regards to cyber security. It can save you a lot of money in the long run.

 

Lizzie Weakley is a freelance writer from Columbus, Ohio. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors and walks in the park with her three-year-old husky, Snowball.

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