Why Small Business Need Cyber Security
The world is evolving now because of the advancement of technology and startups or small business are also advancing quickly to adapt to the advances in the business niche. And is in order to stay relevant and grow fast as possible.
It easy for a small business to make name for themselves because of technology advance and social media but cyber security becomes an issue because as the small business start to make money for themselves, there are small hackers trying to make money from the small business.
Though small businesses suffer attack mostly because of lack of funds to employ an advance technology to battle cyber intrusions.
There are some strategies small businesses can employ to avoid cyber attacks, not 100% avoidance but these strategies will reduce the attack.
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The Strategies are as follows;
1. Small Business Owner Should Have a Cyber Security Mindset:
Having a security mindset makes the owner understands that the business or company data must be safeguarded. By knowing that, you pass it on to your employees and also conduct a regular training programs for the employees so that they will be informed of the security practices and threats that might cross their part.
Ignoring this investments on your employees can cause a great loss and maybe even cause the shutdown of the business.
2. Cyber Risk Analysis Must Be Conducted
Because of the advancement of technology, the plan is to always know how to protect your small business online and also offline. There must be assessment risks in case there’s system sabotage or data leaks or theft. Some system gets exposed because of the open source code therefore you need to have a good developers that can identify all the software components vulnerabilities.
To ensure that the business is always ahead of cyber security risks, you can make use of SCA security checks in the process.
3. Use Strong Password
This should be the basic security everyone must know. There are a lot of software that can crack simple passwords nowadays. password must have combination of ‘uppercase’&’lowercase’ letters, ‘symbols’, ‘numbers’. Example “ 23Bus%oWner349…”. These kind of password can also be breached but it takes months or even years and by that time you have already changed the password and this takes me to the next strategy, “Changing Of Password Every Two Weeks Or Monthly.
4. Change Password Regularly
As a small business owner, you must change your password every two weeks or monthly to avoid any hack. You must not use one password for a very long time because it will be hacked as time goes.
5. Update Your Software Regularly
Software updates help to fix bugs and loophole in the software and not only add new features. Hackers always have to patient and target the loophole for month or even years.
Hardware upgrades and premium antivirus software updates must be the basic updates you must check regularly.
Hardware upgrade helps the software update to run smooth and improve the performance.
6. Backing Up Your File Regularly
It is very necessary to backup your files so in worse case of been hacked and been hold for ransom, you can restore your backup and keep the business running.
An automated program can help backup file easy to a secured cloud server via online and offline to avoid ransomware attack.
7. Sensetive Data Must Have Limited Access
Not all employees must gain access to all the sensitive data of the business. This avoid the employee been blackmail by a hacker .
Conclusion
Small business having minimum cyber security can help the business grow fast so it very necessary to consider the startegies listed above.
