Tips to secure your Small-Business
All companies have struggled recently with hacking, which has either caused them to lose business or worse getting eradicated. Technologist Computers technicians will give you a couple of tips on how to increase your security.
Use Strong Passwords
This will protect your business and yourself. Having cloud services storing your information a hacker has to guess the right information and they have a hold of documents and other valuables from your business. It needs to be 12 characters or more, Can not contain any words that you can find in a dictionary, Capital and lowercase letters numbers, and at least one special character.
Backups
A backup is a protection from data that can go missing. Any information should immediately be copied and secured and Backed up to the cloud or completely separate hardware. Whether you store it on your desktop or in the cloud. Use passwords and encryption for the best possible coverage.
Secure Wifi connection
It is easy for hackers to get into businesses by using the internet as a way to get in. Set up two different wifi accesses one for employees and one for public use to protect and safeguard your business's information. Company wifi should have mac address filtering where only company-issued devices are authorized.
Update your devices
Using the newest and up-to-date security is a great way to tighten up security in your business. Many cybersecurity attacks occur when there are known vulnerabilities in security keeping your devices up to date prevents that from happening. Here is a little secret in tech. The people selling know that their product doesn't work 100% of the time so updating your devices regularly will keep you secure.
These are some of the tips we have come up with to protect your business from having catastrophic damage done. If you have any questions or want to talk with a technologist to learn what steps to take to prevent hacking. Contact us today.