How to Improve Your Cybersecurity
Your cybersecurity is one of the most important things that you need to be mindful of in your company. Many businesses have been moving to improve their remote working options, which means doubling down on your cybersecurity efforts.
So, what can your business do to improve your cybersecurity?
Passwords
Your passwords are one of the places you can make a significant impact in your cybersecurity tactics that is easy to tackle. Passwords get cracked when they are too easy to guess. For example, people often use their dogs or children’s names or their birthday.
In order to make your passwords more robust, there are some simple things you can do.
- Have a password at least 8 characters long
- Use a mixture of numbers, letters (both upper and lower case), and some symbols.
- Use random words put together like cupbenchpink
Managed Service Providers
While you are running your business, you might find it challenging to carve out time to take care of all of your network needs. When you hire IT managed services, you get tech support, security, and a 24/7 service.
Prevention is better than cure when it comes to your cybersecurity, and managed It services can give you that peace of mind.
Besides preventative measures against cybercriminals, you will usually get cloud storage, improved uptime, increase productivity, and the ROI is better compared to a whole It team.
Backup
If you have a power outage, are hacked, or have other human error issues, you can be put in the position where you have a loss of data.
In some cases, it might just be your own data, or you might lose the data of clients.
A backup can ensure that all of the data that you need with a moment’s notice is stored in a cloud system. A managed IT company will be able to take care of this for you.
If you don’t work with a managed IT company, you will have to manually take care of the backups, which can take a lot of money.
2FA
2FA stands for Two factor authentication. It is the second line of defense after your passwords. When you enter your password, you will have a second gate to get through. Often this will be a code text to your mobile phone or a code generated by an authenticator.
2 step authentication can prevent people from accessing your account and alert you to possible attempts to access your accounts.
You can use inbuilt 2-factor authentication, or you can use a third-party authenticator.
Keep up-to-date on software updates
When your software isn’t up to date, it isn’t as safe in terms of security. Updates are essential to ensure that any holes in the security are corrected.
Updates also have essential changes to the performance and stability of your software. Making sure that your software is up to date is one of the key ways to make sure that you are getting the most use out of your software.
You can do this manually, or you have them set to automatically. If you work with a managed It company, these updates will not disrupt you at all.