Internet Security: Cybersecurity Basics for Businesses

Did you know that the U.S. alone loses $100 billion every year to cybercrimes? Cyberattackers target individuals, corporations, and government agencies, with the U.S. Navy getting over 100,000 cyberattacks per hour.

All businesses should be aware and take preventive action against these kinds of attacks because they can be very expensive. Keep reading, and we will guide you through cybersecurity basics for businesses.

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Understand Your Network

Before you get the right network security, you need to understand what your actual network for your company looks like. This includes the software you use, how many devices are connected to your network and are exposed to the Internet, the data you collect, and who has access to what.

You need to understand your network to find where it's vulnerable. You can then work with an IT team to create Internet security and data backups to prevent anything from being stolen or hacked.

Employee Awareness

Employee awareness has always been important, but now more than ever, with remote work, you want to make sure that your employees know how to keep the company's data protected. You should have training that includes the basics:

1. Strong passwords
2. Password manager
3. Phishing email
4. What the process is if you receive a suspicious attachment or email

You want to make sure that employees who handle company finances or data about HIPAA have more training or are aware of the preventive measures they need to take to keep data safe.

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Update Software Often

When you're setting up IT infrastructure, you want to make sure that your employee's computers are set up where software updates are required. The updates should happen every time a glitch, bug, virus, or other risk comes about and is fixed.

Password Protection

For extra data privacy, you want to make sure your employees have to update their passwords every 30, 60, or 90 days depending on how often it's used and what it's used for.

You should set up a password manager for all of your employees so all of their passwords are protected, and they have a safe way to share passwords if they need to.

If you want to avoid being a part of the $6 trillion that the U.S. is expected to spend on cybersecurity in 2021, you need to stay smart and make sure you prepare for anything to happen.

Put Into Practice the Cybersecurity Basics

Now that you're up to speed on the cybersecurity basics, you can prep your IT team and employees on how you can improve Internet security.

Start with understanding your network and employee awareness to make sure everyone is on the same page and a process is in place if there is a suspicious email or breach.

Then make sure that your software is automated and updated regularly, and that your employees are using strong passwords and changing them frequently.

Start assessing your cybersecurity or schedule a call with Securily to learn more about how they can help you with security and compliance.