Since the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) plus the rise of the cloud, businesses have been facing increased vulnerabilities. There has been an increasing number of online fraudsters who are always looking to steal or damage the software or electronic data, and some of them defrauding these businesses of their hard-earned money. Given that businesses rely on computers in their operations, it is giving the fraudsters an even better chance to attack. Also, without an effective IT security strategy, each and every element of your business gets exposed to online threats. And that means a negative impact on productivity, profits, and customer experience. To make matters worse, in some businesses, the attacker comes from within your organisation, which makes things even more complicated, as your critical business data and other valuable intellectual property are at great risk. This reiterates why you need to find an IT security team to handle this aspect of the business for you immediately.
What you need is an IT security consulting and managed IT security service that not only offers considerable risk reduction for your networks, systems, and applications but also ensures maximum uptime as well as the continuity of your operations. The security should have the capability to monitor your entire IT environment ready to resolve any security threat they detect and also deter these kinds of threats on a continual basis. Whether it is keeping your business up to date and GDPR compliant or protecting your entire network, or guaranteeing your security whenever you are online, the IT security team needs to ensure that they fully protect your business from any online threat.
We have been offering effective IT security services designed to shield businesses ’ critical IT systems from harm. We assess the state of your vulnerability, and therefore, provide security solutions based on your individual circumstance. Under IT security, we offer the following security services:
Powerful solutions to keep your network safe from cyberattacks, hacking attempts, and employee negligence.
Proactively protect your organisation from the inside out and safeguard against the latest threats and vulnerabilities.
We understand that your business runs on information, and so, we will help you manage access to your system and also implement security protocols so as to ensure that you have a simple, yet very effective IT security strategy. We will boost the agility of the systems to ensure that only authorised individuals will have access.
In close collaboration with you and your team, while also applying our extensive experience in IT security management, we will get a better understanding of the challenges you are facing, and so, the solutions will be well-tailored to meet those needs.
As putting up any kind of defence against cyber threats, you need to understand how attackers think, our years of experience in conducting pen testing and other ethical hacking engagements around the globe means that we know of the latest adversarial tactics as well as wide-ranging insight on how to build a better defence against them.
In the most basic terms, cybersecurity refers to the protection and recovery of data, devices, networks, and programs from cyber-attacks, unauthorized access, or criminal use. It helps to ensure integrity, confidentiality as well as the availability of business and client data tied to the internet. Today, cyber-attacks are on the rise. This is becoming a threat to many small businesses, their employees, and clients. If you are not well prepared, the criminals can target you, hold you hostage and even destroy sensitive data, and in the worst-case scenario, might extort money and destroy your business completely. But by laying out a robust cybersecurity plan, you will be able to nip the potential threats in the bud.
The thing is, IT security is all about lowering the risk of attack on your business’s systems. Realistically, you can’t guarantee absolute security for your system, and also you can’t shield your business completely from cyber-attacks. But what you can do is to take precautionary measures to significantly reduce the likelihood of a successful attack on your system. A successful cyber-attack on your IT system will lead to massive damage to your business. It affects your bottom line, and you might lose customers’ trust as well as business standing. You might also find yourself facing fines and regulatory sanctions if data is deliberately or accidentally compromised due to the failure of deploying proper security measures. So, in this case, the expertise and experience of a team of IT security professionals come in handy.
Without a clear cybersecurity policy in place, you will certainly be exposing your business and employees to a number of risks. This is particularly so during this time where the employees are working remotely and are also accessing company accounts through their personal devices. This is to say that you direly need a clear policy in place to protect your business against attackers. Keep in mind though, after establishing the policy, you will have to make sure that you keep reviewing it to ensure that it is up to date. Given that the technology keeps changing, you have to ensure that the policies reflect these changes.
Basically, a firewall is a device that’s used to protect networks by controlling the traffic and blocking outsiders from accessing your private data on your computer. It allows you to set individual application rules, where you allow access to some and deny others. Firewalls range from simple to more complex in terms of their functionality, where the newest models are much more sophisticated and do much more than just filter the traffic. On whether you need one, our answer would be, yes, you do! Your business will be a lot safer if you have a firewall in place. Given the various types of firewalls out there, you will have to choose wisely, and choose one that works based on your business’ needs. Talk to us and we will help you choose the right one.
Are you still using the same password across all your accounts? If you are, you need to stop, immediately! It is dangerous and reckless to do so. You need to create a super-strong password for each account – one that would be difficult to guess. Here are some tips on how to create such a password:
Avoid reusing passwords – if you usually forget passwords and have trouble remembering all the passwords, consider using a password manager.
Use a passphrase – given that many hacking software only works for 12 or fewer characters, how about you shake things a bit, by using a passphrase? Consider something like “I Love My Business 100%”. It would be difficult to guess such a password, and it meets the complexity requirements of symbols and lower case as well as upper case letters.
Never use the same email address for personal and work accounts – when you do this and a hacker figures out the password, you will be in trouble as far more sensitive data will become vulnerable.
Always back up the important data at least once a week, and if possible, do it after every 24 hours. As a matter of fact, it’s recommended that you come up with regulations guiding you on how often and where you can back up sensitive data. The good thing about all this is that you don’t have to be manually doing this at all times, as there are software programs that can be set to automatically back up data at a chosen time. But if you don’t want to do it automatically and most probably aren’t regulated, you will want to prioritise the most important data to back up first. For example, business information, customer data, billing info, branding materials, bookkeeping, and/or orders. Our IT security team can help you figure everything out, and we can even be backing up data for you instead.
The truth is, you can’t prevent malware attacks fully from happening to you, but there are effective and reliable ways to detect and block the attacks, thereby protecting your system from malicious software. They include:
Internet safety can be tricky. Those sites that look reputable but they may contain, spyware traps, or you may find that they are counterfeit –they are just phishing sites posing as a real website only to lure you into their debacles and scams. So, given all this, how can you browse safely? Well, it’s quite simple actually – just follow the following steps:
Talk to our IT security team if you have any questions and we will help you find solutions suitable to your specific situation.