It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! So, we’re joining in the fun with a focus on small businesses. During the month of October, we’re sharing best practices to keep your organization safe from cyber threats.
Category: Cybersecurity – Detection and Response
Since you started using a computer, you’ve been encouraged to backup your work. You may have even found out the hard way after losing an important document or file. Well, cybersecurity insurance is a way to backup your business.
If your company is hit with an online attack, the damage to your reputation, loss of assets, and legal liability could put you out of business. Investing in cybersecurity insurance is a wise precaution for a business of any size (especially if you store sensitive data) to guard itself against the high cost of an attack.
Business continuity is becoming a focal point of our IT strategy, and we expect to see the cloud continue to make it easy to stay secure and productive anywhere.
A data breach could cripple a small business. Data breaches affect a business’s reputation, which leads to fewer customers and less revenue—not to mention the potential fines and legal fees. Since small businesses are more likely to have the least amount of resources protecting them, they are often targeted.
The good news? Most security threats are preventable!
Technology helps small businesses thrive but also exposes you to significant security risks. As more data moves to the cloud and the number of devices accessing your systems grows, hackers will continue to be a threat. It’s vital for you to know the biggest cybersecurity issues your small business will face.
Cyber attacks are on the rise, and working from home offices comes with unique threats and vulnerabilities; however, that doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to thwart the threats.
How can your team be productive and secure while working from home?
Sophos joins us to highlight the best ways to boost your security when our employees aren’t in the office. These tips include:
How to protect your employees’ computers with remote work
- How to protect your organization’s data with remote work
- How employees can secure their home environment
Watch our webinar for cybersecurity tips while your team works remotely.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about important tools and best practices that can help protect your organization.
We rely on the internet more than ever. Most of us are always ‘connected’. Constant connectivity can open the door for bad guys. They know you and your colleagues store and share data on your connected devices. Knowing the risks can help you keep your data safe and reduce the impact of an attack. Here’s info that can help you avoid costly mistakes when it comes to cybersecurity.
If your firewall and antivirus are the locked doors of your IT, then a Security Operations Center is the alarm system and the police who respond to a break-in. It is a mix of tools, processes, and people looking for threats in order to quickly stop them and prevent damage. Essentially, it’s real-time threat detection and response.
By now, you know how important cybersecurity tools are as part of your IT plan. And you know that even with many layers of security, a hacker may still find a way in to your network. In fact, hackers often assume small organizations are not as careful as large corporations, so they see businesses like yours as easy targets. On top of that, most organizations don’t find out about a security breach for over a month. If that’s not good enough for your organization, you need to know about WorkSmart’s Security Operations Center (SOC) service.
Have you received an email from a hacker trying to blackmail you in exchange for ransom? And did it include a real password you’ve used in the past (or still use)? You’re not alone, and the only thing you should do about it is change any compromised passwords. These extortion email scams have been going on all year, and this article explains one of the recent iterations.