Identify

  • Identify and Control who has access to your business information
  • Conduct background checks during the hiring process
  • Require individual user accounts for each employee
  • Create policies and procedures for cybersecurity
  • Test users security awareness
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Protect

  • Limit employee access to data and information 
  • Use multifactor authentication to any system that has data
  • Secure e-mail communication and monitor phishing attempts
  • Patch your operating systems and applications with the Simplefusion Solution Plan
  • Install Next-Generation Firewall to filter content, scan for malware and alert IT if someone is attempting to hack your network
  • Secure wireless access points and networks
  • Create a guest network that does not have access to your business network
  • Use encryption for sensitive business information
  • Dispose of old computers and media properly 
  • Install battery and surge protection systems 
  • Ask your IT provider what they do to secure their computer systems 
  • TRAIN YOUR EMPLOYEES!

Detect

  • Install a Next-Generation Firewall and Networking equipment
  • Install and update virus software, anti-spyware, and other anti-malware programs
  • Install a sophisticated backup system that includes password-protected offsite backups
  • Monitor all system notifications so if a breach is detected I.T. resolves the issue as soon as possible 

Respond

  • I.T. must respond as quickly as possible when a breach occurs
  • Educate your employees on how to recognize a breach
  • Make sure to monitor security systems so that I.T. can react quickly
  • Create a disaster recovery plan
  • Create a security incident recovery plan

Recover

  • Test your recovery plans
  • Create full backups of critical data and information
  • Monitor the backups request email reports of your backups
  • Store backups onsite and offsite
    • Hackers are encrypting or destroying onsite backups during their attacks
  • Password protect onsite and offsite backups
  • Consider cyber insurance
  • Continually update cybersecurity processes, procedures, and technologies 

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