Small Businesses Need Cyber Security!!

Even before the pandemic, cybercrime focus has shifted towards small business. They are an easy pray for it, because before, majority of news coverage touched only of the huge, multibillion dollars corporations, that have been more of a challenge for hackers, than an attempt at stealing. Based on this, in public eye, small business seems to be safe. However, this situation has changed quite drastically during the last several years. Small businesses have become a majority of recipients (60%) of cyber-attacks and statistics show that about 60% (!!) out of small businesses affected by those attacks go out of business within 6 following months (loss of time, money, data recovery etc. – costs of fallout of those attacks is very significant).

Since the beginning of pandemic there has been a significant shift in how most of us conduct our businesses. Online consultations, online shopping, online documentation, online baking, employees, and owners working from home – all these behaviors opened up many new ways for cyber criminals to steal from us.

Correct me if I am wrong, but most of us do not have money to lose to criminals. Whether you are a small, one person operation, a 1 to 5 employee company or a larger one your cyber safety should be your priority right now! We all think, if we are small, nobody will bother us, but this is not the case anyore. If you leave a door open, someone will come in and take whatever they want regardless of the status of your financial resources. The criminals have no ethics, and it will not matter to them what is your personal or company situation. Therefore, it is more and more important to take a look at our cyber security.

Here are the top 5 practices that will help in preventing and/or decrease a fallout of a cyber security breach:

1. Understand your cybersecurity status (check it once every year)
2. Train yourself and your employees on prevention and detection (phishing skims recognitions, safe practices)
3. Make sure your data is backed up using a proper, managed backup solution
4. Run your security updates consistently (antivirus / MS security updates) and
5. Apply password security protocols, that will prevent an easy security breach.

At MiKSMedia we offer free consultations to help you protect your company. We can check your status and provide you with solutions.

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