What is “Enough” Cyber Security for Your SMB?

Summary: This 3-minute article explains the importance of having the right amount of cyber security in place for your SMB. Contact DIGIGUARD CYBER SECURITY at 833-33-CYBER (833-332-9237) or visit www.DIGIGUARDsecurity.com to schedule a security risk assessment.

Small to midsized businesses often spend most of their budgets on operating their companies. However, with the enormous increase in remote access work, SMBs must focus more on cyber security as one of their top-line items. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have not been on vacation during the pandemic. On the contrary, they have rolled out new attack strategies that can bring your business to a grinding halt. With each new technological advancement, hackers are searching for new opportunities to breach your hard-earned business data.

A Professional Network Security Assessment Can Reduce the Risk of a Cyber Attack

Professional IT security consulting is the best way to ensure you have the proper layers of cyber security in place to protect your SMB. While more companies are beginning to focus on securing their networks, many don’t consider the possibility of installing too much security. Too much security can become cumbersome, and your over-the-top cybercrime paranoia can turn off customers. However, under-secured systems can fall victim to extensive losses, including compromised private data, time, money and customers. Cyber security must be balanced with functionality. Before hiring IT professionals to perform a cyber risk analysis, here are some things to consider:

• What Does Your Business Do? – Prioritize what data and proprietary information are most important to the successful functioning of your business. With a clear understanding of your SMB’s operation, it will be easier to find cyber vulnerabilities in your network. Some vital areas of protection include:
  • Software Application Security
  • Network Security
  • Data Security
  • Cyberattack Recovery Planning
  • Operational Security
  • Device Security
• Is Your SMB a High Compliance Organization? – Medical and law practices, as well as financial institutions, must be particularly careful about securing their data as they are legally responsible for protecting their clients’ most personal information. For such companies, a significant data breach could put them out of business and subject them to lawsuits filed by clients for years to come.
• Are You Currently Monitoring Your Cyber Security? – In the current cybercrime environment, operating a business network requires constant vigilance, automation of security functions and deep reporting to ensure you are aware of all your company’s events and vulnerabilities and that your data is well protected.
• Standard of Care – Legally, companies are expected to provide a certain “standard of care” when protecting client data. If the company meets or exceeds such standards, it might not be held liable for some data breaches. However, because more than 60 percent of SMBs go out of business within six months of a cyberattack, it makes sense for an SMB owner to employ professional IT experts to provide IT security consulting services.

The most prolific hackers can eventually breach most cyber protections with enough time and resources. However, with robust layers of cyber security in place, cyberattacks can be spotted early, mitigated and contained before data is breached and extensive damage is done to your business network and all its endpoint devices. Unfortunately, the process of cyber protection has become too complex for amateurs. Many essential considerations are far beyond the expertise of the most tech-savvy users. Professional IT security consulting is the best way to protect your business fully.

DIGIGUARD Cyber Security is an IT security service specializing in cyber threat protection for small to midsized companies. In addition, DIGIGUARD can provide your SMB with powerful layers of security, making it more difficult for hackers to access your network. Therefore, your company’s data will be safer and less likely to be breached in the face of our expanding mobile work environment. But, as the FBI www.fbi.org has stated repeatedly, the best defense against a cyberattack is never to have one. Toward that goal, solid prevention and relentless monitoring, in tandem with swift mitigating responses to an attack, are essential protections in the face of escalating cyber criminality.

As you build your business, expand its network and add more devices such as smart controls, wireless access and remote access, your network vulnerability continues to increase with your growing cybercrime attack target landscape. DIGIGUARD uses state-of-the-art proactive ransomware defense tools and has a wide array of solutions for small and midsized businesses to guard against the many forms of malware attacks and other network data breaches. In addition, they are cyber security experts who can ensure your confidential business and banking data has the best protection possible. What’s more, they can help you defend against or recover from cyberattacks and provide solutions that offer early detection of potential cyber threats before they happen. Furthermore, DIGIGUARD can assess your cyber vulnerability and work with you to ensure you have the best network and data protection solutions for your business.

Contact DIGIGUARD CYBER SECURITY at 833-33-CYBER (833-332-9237) or visit www.DIGIGUARDsecurity.com to explore prevention strategies available to guard against deadly cyberattacks and other cyber defense strategies and protocols they can provide to protect your company’s hard-earned data.