It might sound like a buzz word of the future, but the future is now when it comes to securing the information that matters most to your business. Educate yourself and your employees on what needs to be done to secure passwords, improve network security, and reduce the odds of hackers finding backdoors into your network.
Create Policies that Promote Cyber Safety
It might be tempting to allow employees to bring in their own devices to connect to the business network, but it exposes your network, your employees, your customers, and your business to untold risks. The best practice is to create policies that strongly discourage these actions – complete with consequences for offending employees.
Encrypt Your Data
All information has value. Information that’s stored on your networks and not actively being used by employees needs to be encrypted. Most operating systems offer encrypting as a feature. It’s a simple matter to activate and provides a huge benefit when no one is actively logged into the computer.
Unfortunately, your systems are still vulnerable while the computer is operational, which is why you must also set computers to log out after ten or 15 minutes of inactivity.
Taking more proactive and forward-thinking measures to reduce your risks of getting hacked is the best way to reduce your risks in today’s business environment that is increasingly reliant on technology.