Three of the focuses of my blog are Financial Literacy/Money, Business/Entrepreneurship and Technology. Most businesses today have a digital component and thus it’s important to know how to keep your information systems secure. The following contributed post is thus entitled; Cut Through The Mumbo Jumbo Maze To Keep Your Business Secure.
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Every business should be focusing on security these days. But it can be difficult to know where to start with the task of keeping your business and indeed your customers protected. There’s a lot of tech nonsense online about how to do it that the average business owner probably doesn’t understand. This leaves them with only one option. Hiring an expensive security professional to handle the job for them and make sure all the bases are covered. Or, alternatively, you could cut through the nonsense and make sure you have the basic systems in place to keep your business secure. Let’s look at what this could mean.
Passwords 101
You will have important data files related to security on your business computer or network. If you don’t have passwords, this should change right now. It’s crucial that you do take measures to keep those files and systems safe from prying hands and passwords are the best way to do it. Just don’t fall into the trap of creating a pass that is easy to guess. Passwords should be completely random and should not contain any personal information relating to you or your company. You might think about using digital or electronic passwords, and the issue here is that the device storing them can be stolen and then used against you.
Get On The Cloud
You might still be wary of using cloud servers in your business model. But they are a great deal more secure than the average document that can be taken at any point. Cloud servers simply mean that data is stored on a network and the actual storage space won’t even typically be in your business property. This makes hacks far more difficult and complicated, guaranteeing that most online criminals won’t even bother to try.
Encryptions
You might have heard of encryptions and wondered what that actually means. Encryptions simply means that data can be taken but not viewed outside of a closed network. A token is an example of this. With tokens through systems like BlueSnap, it’s possible to hide user account numbers completely making transactions far more secure. Of course, this is just one example of a potential encryption.
You might also be talking to colleagues or clients through social media. Certain social media like Whatsapp offer encryption options that are secure enough they can be used by medical staff such as doctors and nurses.
Anti-Virus Software
Finally, do make sure that you are putting anti-virus software on your business computer systems. Failing to do this is essentially like leaving the gate wide open for hackers and thieves. They won’t have to make much of an effort at all. Instead, they just need to make sure that a trojan virus is downloaded onto your system. That can be as simple as sending a fake email from a ‘client.’ Once the virus is downloaded, it can be filled with various dangerous pieces of software that could help a criminal clone your entire system and all your data. Alternatively, they might just choose to send you back to square one.
