3 Practices to Protect Your Business from Cyber Attacks
According to the Global Risk Report 2022, conducted annually by Zurich, the University of Singapore and Oxford, cyber risks are on the list of the top 10 global threats in the short and medium term.
Therefore, knowing how to protect an institution against cybersecurity attacks is essential. Here are three tips:
- Do vulnerability management
Vulnerability Management is a key tactic to protect the system of the company you work for from cybercriminal attacks.
With this, specialized professionals perform network scans to map weaknesses and present solutions to improve security.
With these actions, you can work on prevention, a way to save resources and one of the main reasons for your company to invest in cybersecurity.
- Make Recurring Backups
An institution’s data is its most important asset, as it contains confidential information related to the company, customers, employees and suppliers.
This practice concerns making copies of the files contained in a system. It is important to know how to create backups more securely, for this it is important to take into account the following aspects:
- Appropriate location: depending on the copied file, it is important to save it on a specific drive, such as the cloud or on physical equipment;
- regularity: it is essential to identify priority data and carry out regular rescues;
- Mobility: If your company uses the cloud or emails to store information, it is important that they are protected by a firewall.
- Offer cyberattack training to your team
According to research conducted by regulator Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), about 43% of cyberattacks originate from employee errors.
Therefore, it is important to pass on any measure taken to the entire staff, for this, it is crucial to offer continuing education instructing on good information security practices.
Some of the basic practices are:
- do not open suspicious emails;
- do not run unauthorized applications;
- Do not use unreliable USB devices, whether USB sticks, hard drives or cell phones.
Finally, a tip that goes beyond the actions listed is to invest in a Brazilian cybersecurity solution capable of protecting a company, regardless of size, against threats, vulnerabilities and different cyber attacks.
Get to know the products developed by Blockbit and get several advantages such as easy implementation, technical support in Portuguese and payment in the local currency.
With more than 5,000 clients, Blockbit is one of the leading manufacturers of cybersecurity solutions, empowering businesses to protect themselves against a wide range of threats, vulnerabilities, and cyberattacks, whether internal or external, generic or specific.