No matter what kind of business you are running, it is important to keep your customer information and internal information safe. When a security breach happens, it doesn’t just put the information of clients and employees at stake, but it makes a company seem untrustworthy and this could severely impact its future business.
As a company, you must keep your cybersecurity measures up and running. Here are some effective ways to do that:
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Be Transparent
Let’s be real, there is no foolproof cybersecurity system. Even the best software in the industry will not provide you 100 percent security. You must keep all the cybersecurity communications around security policies transparent. Your in-house team also deserves to know what the company is doing to protect the customer, business, and employee information safe. Along with letting them know about the security policies, give them access to tools to that they can take appropriate action as and when necessary.
Use 2-factor Authentication
2-factor authentication can save you from lots of data breaches. It may be frustrating but you wouldn’t want to compromise your personal information, right? Remember how 29 million Facebook accounts have been hacked recently. Most of the people exposed to the hack had their accounts linked to their cell phones, online banking accounts, and dating profiles. With 2-factor authentication, two steps are required in the verification process which makes stealing your personal information twice as difficult.
Create Awareness and Provide Training
You must make your employees awareness about the importance of security, and what measures must be taken to keep the company’s information safe. Along with that, training is necessary too. Remember that security is not a crash course, it is a thought process that must be integrated amongst your employees from the very beginning.
Have a Disaster Recovery Plan in Place
Data is the lifeblood of your organization. You must keep it safe. For that, you should consider the possibility that what if a natural disaster destroys your data. Although it’s a little different from cybersecurity, it’s still affecting your data, right? In that case, it’s pertinent to have a disaster recovery plan in place. This will help you to continue your business operations even if a disaster strikes. All you have to do is make sure the data stored at the backup locations is up to date.
Monitor All Access Points
Lots of organizations are fostering the culture of BYOD and if your company allows it too, you must be extra careful in monitoring the access points. No matter how small a piece of technology it is, it could act as a getaway to the information that is shouldn’t be compromised. Along with computers and laptops, you must also consider the smartphones that your employees possess. They could act as an access point that could cause accidental or even intentional loss of information. Hence you must catalog every workstation and every piece of software used within the company. Don’t ignore anything.
Cybersecurity is a growing concern regardless of the size of your business. You must start taking effective measures to improve your company’s policies for minimizing the after effects of the breach.
