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Keep Your Business Safe With These Cyber Security Tips

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When you own a business, you want to ensure that everything runs smoothly. This includes not only the normal everyday operations, in general, but also keeping everything safe and secure. As everything is online now due to the digital world in which we currently live, it’s more important than ever to use cyber security measures. Use these tips to your advantage to keep your business as safe as possible.

 

Train Your Employees

 

First and foremost, you should always train your employees on the dangers of cyber-attacks. Many issues of breaches occur due to employees not knowing better and accidentally clicking on a link or attachment in a suspicious email or through some other means. If your staff knows what to look out for, they will be more eagle-eyed and able to identify potential threats, which can keep your business and all of its data safer.

 

Use Superior Anti-Malware Software

 

Hackers and other cyber thieves have become savvier than ever. They know how to target businesses and hit them with viruses, Trojan horses, worms and other types of malware. Good malware and ransomware protection software can help to reduce the risk of these attacks hitting your company’s network and data. When you opt for malware protection and ransomware protection, you should choose superior software programs that have excellent reputations. This is one area in which you don’t want to be frugal. It’s worth the money to get software that is absolutely going to keep your business safe and secure.

 

Make Regular Backups of Data

 

As a busy business, you should always make regular backups of your company data. Backing up should be done in more than one way: you can make hard copy backups on CDs or DVDs or external hard drives and to the cloud. Cloud technology is generally best because it is always easily accessible from any location whenever you need it. For instance, if you experience any length of downtime with your company’s server, you can still conveniently access your data right from the cloud. Making regular backups once per week or even once per month can also better protect your business against ransomware and other cyber threats.

 

Always Require Strong Passwords

 

Above all else, you should always require strong passwords for your business. Assign individual passwords to your employees and make them choose those that are stronger and include a good combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. The strongest passwords are also longer rather than shorter. You should also require passwords in the office to be changed around once per month or at least once every three months. It will keep your business data more secure and keep cyber criminals at bay.

 

Use a VPN When Telecommuting and Secure Mobile Devices

 

If you or any of your employees ever telecommute or do any remote work, especially if unsecured Wi-Fi networks are used, it’s absolutely essential to use a VPN (virtual private network). A VPN can keep your Wi-Fi connection hidden, which is a good way to prevent a potential hacker from accessing sensitive data. You should also aim to keep mobile devices secure by using a VPN on them as well and enforcing password protection.

 

These cyber security tips can help to keep your business more secure. Your company data will remain safer from the nosy eyes of hackers and other criminals.

 

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