Monday, 28 October 2013

Some Handy Tips for Enhancing Cyber Security of Small Businesses

Starting a business of your own? A smaller one!! But want some effective guidance over how to deal with cyber threats at business level, and protect your business from being a caught victim? Then read on some useful tips listed below:-
  • Use Small Biz Cyber Planner: - Small Biz Cyber Planner is an effective product by FCC, for small business owners. It’s useful in establishing an effective cyber security plan for small scaled businesses. The tool asks for several levels of security you want to add in your security plan; once you complete that the work is done. The tool itself creates a cyber-security strategy for business and delivers that in a PDF document.
  •  Assign some security rules towards employee end:- Establish some simple rules of behavior, describing how and what to be shared online. And a clear address through penalties for respective violence to cyber security policies would work enough.
  •  Purchase good antivirus software and keep it updated with latest virus definitions. That would shield your systems against cyber threats.
  • Guide your employees about cyber threats now-a-days, that are spreading vigorously via several social media sites. It may lead towards safe social networking habits and protect your network from those cyber threats.
  • Maintain regular upgrades and update installations of installed software’s on your systems. Software vendors provide various updates to their software’s which in turn improves the software performance and ability to track down any threats in future. Therefore, up-to-date software would protect you from cyber threats.
  • Always maintain a backup of necessary information & entire business data.
  • Protect your systems from being accessed by unauthorized individuals. A perfect customization would protect you from un-authenticated access of your systems.
  • If you own a wi-fi network for your business, always make sure it’s not traceable. Customize it to secure and hidden, so that your router doesn’t broadcasts the SSID to others.

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