Protecting your organisation from cyber attacks

Cyber security is a crucial part of security to all organizations that protects the organization from theft and damage such as sensitive data, personal information, intellectual property data, governmental submission data and industry information systems. 

What is cybersecurity? 

Cybersecurity is the process of protecting your computer systems, networks and programs from cyber attacks. There are various benefits of cybersecurity and it is important for an organization to train their employees to be exposed to the risks of the damage. In return, the organization will save money when it comes to cyber-related loss incidents. In addition, employees will also spend lesser time in tracking down threats or fixing any affected work. 

 

 

How to protect your company against cyberattacks? 

Educate staff
Human error is very common as there is a limit to what a human can do and careless mistakes are often made on a daily basis. If your employees are taught to identify when encounter cyber threats, there are many other incidents that can be avoided. Employees regardless of position in a company have to be included in such educational programs to prevent any unknown threats and spending a huge cost on security controls. 

Data back-up
Backing up data through hard disk or cloud backup is one of the most important yet cost-effective ways to ensure information is able to be recovered in any event of a cyber attack. Some of the settings in cloud storage or even hard disk is able to automatic do backups hence, employees do not have to do it manually or even with the possibility of forgetting to do it.
It is a good idea to consider multiple backup methods such as: 

• Daily basis backups 
• End of week backups 
• Quarterly backups 
• Yearly server backups 

 

Emails

Employees must be trained to never respond to requests for personal information through email. In such a situation, it is encouraged to verify the particular email or through phone call. Employees have to be trained to also identify any possible threat such as downloading unknown files from anonymous emails which may lead to virus attacks. 

 

The good news is most cyberattacks can be avoided if precautions are taken. Organizations should enhance security internally by training employees, update software regularly and implementing email authentication which is amongst the simplest and effective ways in preventing cyberattacks. All it takes is for organizations to realise that precaution is essential in their digital system in their day-to-day operations.