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How To Protect Your Business From Hackers

Simple ways to create a much safer business

By KevinPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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The world of 2020 is one of interconnectivity. Thanks to the internet, the world is much smaller and much more close knit than ever before. Businesses all kinds can implement modern technology in order to improve their efficacy, but that entails a certain degree of risk. Hackers tend to target businesses in order to exploit weaknesses and obtain illicit data, putting businesses and consumers alike at great risk. Here’s what you need to know in order to keep your company’s network safe from bad actors.

Use Encryption to Protect Your Network

Using the internet means sending and receiving a lot of data very frequently, and these exchanges each represent a potential breach of security. Data can be intercepted by hackers during transit, meaning that an unsecured server is a ticking time bomb. Likewise, an unsecured website can be converted into a trap for unwitting consumers by implementing malware that can leak consumers’ private data to hackers. SSL decryption and encryption can prevent these outcomes by scrambling data during transmission, ensuring that it’s useless to any hackers that might get their hands on it. Encryption and decryption protocols are a fundamental way to protect data online, but it isn’t part and parcel with the HTTP framework that the internet uses, leaving websites unprotected by default. It falls to you as the owner of your network to obtain encryption certification in order to qualify for an HTTPS URL and keep your customers safe and your company visible to search engines.

Hire a Cybersecurity Team to Guide You

Cybersecurity can be incredibly complex, and it can be difficult to create a robust, comprehensive security framework for your business. There are several factors that need to be addressed, and doing so will require a variety of tools and techniques. This means that prioritizing security is a matter of finding and hiring experts in the field. Cybersecurity consultants can advise you on how best to protect your company’s network and data, and a full time staff of security specialists can help you monitor and analyze network traffic in order to prevent cyber attacks. Perhaps most importantly, bringing cybersecurity professionals into the fold can be the key to recovering from a cyber attack while mitigating the damage and minimizing downtime.

Creating a thorough cybersecurity infrastructure requires multiple pieces of software with their own use cases, so it’s important to have qualified experts on hand to simplify the complex and get your network kitted out with cutting edge tools to thwart the tricks of the hacking trade.

Use Best Practices to Minimize Risks

Human error is the biggest liability in security, and cybersecurity is no exception. Human error accounts for 90% of all cybersecurity breaches, so taking the steps to reduce the margin for error is an absolute must for your company. Much like unencrypted exchanges represent opportunities for hackers to intercept vital information, your employees performing their daily tasks online can potentially go south in any number of ways at virtually any time. Cybersecurity software can help to reduce the potential harm that mistakes can cause, but it’s not perfect. Avoiding emergency situations in which you’d need that final line of defense is an important part of staying safe.

Password security can be a major hurdle, because it’s human nature to create a password one can easily remember. This is great for preventing yourself from getting locked out of your computer or your accounts, but it can also make you an easy mark for hackers. Creating a gibberish password is therefore the preferred method, and supplementing your password with multi factor authentication provides an exponential increase in security by demanding not one, but two distinct credentials before you can access sensitive data.

Protecting the personal data of your clientele and your own company’s files is critical for the survival of your business in the digital age. This guide can help you build a sturdy cybersecurity framework that can prevent the worst from happening.

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