Cybersecurity Tips for Your Business in the New Year
Cybersecurity Tips
Your business is often your home away from home, and you will do anything to protect it. These cybersecurity tips for 2018 will help keep your business up and running.
1. Make Sure Your Systems Remain Updated
Systems and software that are out of date are an invitation for destruction and devastation. Failure to upload your systems is an invitation for hackers to remotely attack your business. Technology continues to evolve, and one of the last things you want to do is be vulnerable.
2. Educate Your Employees
Your team is only as strong as your weakest link, and the same is true for your business. As the leader of the team, you have the responsibility of making your teammates strong. In the business world, making your team strong means educating them about various safe practices, including internet safety. Phishing, a cybercrime that involves falsifying information and posing as a legitimate company to receive personal information, such as, social security numbers, passwords, and credit card numbers, is a crime that happens thousands of times each year. Phishing is a real crime that many businesses do not take seriously, and as a result, businesses spend hundreds of dollars repairing the damage. It only takes one employee to click an email without checking the email of the sender or looking for anything suspicious, and the entire network of the business is exposed, as well as information on the network, and devices connected to the network.
3. Use Passphrases Instead of Passwords
A lot of things should change in the new year, including passphrases and passwords. For the year of 2018, forget about passwords altogether and focus on passphrases. Passphrases are similar to passwords but are more complex. When you are considering your passphrase, think of abbreviations or important dates, including your pet’s name, anniversary, a combination of your parent’s birthdays or any other dates that stand out in your mind. For added security, add numbers or special symbols to your passphrase, including exclamation or question marks.
4. Know Your Network
You need to know how your network is connected to devices throughout your business, how your network operates, security and protection levels your network features, and most of all, know who has access to your network. Along with knowing who can access your network, you need to know what they can access while on your network. The more you know about your network and how it operates, the better you can determine what you need to protect it.
How Home Security Systems Can Help
With all of the advances in technology, you may find it difficult to keep up with everything. Cybersecurity can be difficult to understand, which can make protecting your business’s network frustrating. Home Security Concepts understands your need for security for your business. We are always adding technology to our current packages for added protection and peace of mind. Home Security Concepts is a business you can trust. We are security experts who have your best interest in protecting your business. We offer a variety of packages that will be suitable for your business. Contact us for more information regarding cybersecurity tips, and get your free ADT Miami quote today.
