We owe it to ourselves and to our organisations to protect it in by learning how to protect ourselves. No matter what cyber security software it cannot give full guarantee.
95% of breaches are resultant from human error.
Important Must Know
- Educate all employees on the importance of protecting Data
- Understand what data you have and classify it
- Do not give every employee access to all and every piece of data
- Consider moving sensitive information and systems to a cloud provider
- Enable Remote Wipe
- Give everyone his or her own access credentials
- Ensure that everyone users’ proper passwords to access these systems
- Go Multi Factor Authentication
- Deal with Boyd
- Encrypt sensitive data when storing or transmitting it
- Backup- Backup- Backup
- Keep your backups off site, away from and not connected to networks
- Create appropriate social media policies and enforce them with technology
- Comply with all applicable regulations and industry standards
- Use appropriate security technology and do a penetration test
- Ensure that all technology is kept up to date
- Keep IOT of things away from not connected to production networks
- Hire expert advice
- Create a sound a cyber-security strategy
- Monitor Networks
Network monitoring helps spotting slow and failing components that might jeopardise your system. If a detection system suspects a potential breach it can send out an email alert based on the type of activity it has identified.
- Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders
Build a close-knit team to back you and implement the security changes you want to see in your organisation
- Set security measures and controls
Prevention, Detection, Response
- Create a dynamic security structure
Carry the security banner, organise training sessions and refreshers, Securing the business and educating employees should be a top concern. Awehness is the key.
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