Cybersecurity & Small Business: Best Practices | by Investigator515 | Mar, 2024 | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware | #hacking | #aihp

Cybersecurity in small organisations can be a headache if you don’t follow best practices.

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Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in data breaches and hacks that have occurred, many of which have affected small businesses. Security through obscurity, while existing in the early days of the internet is no defense policy to have in today’s world.

While large organisations and corporations typically have large IT departments with dedicated cybersecurity staff, you’ll often find that small businesses or not-for-profit groups have a lot fewer resources at their disposal to use for such things. Because of this, you’ll often find a large variance in the policies and strategies that are used between these different types of groups. However, if we’re a smaller organisation, we can offset some of this risk by using some industry best practices to help structure the role cybersecurity policy plays within our business. In today’s article, we’ll explore five of these practices and discuss how implementing them in the workplace can raise your security posture, quickly and easily.

To defend against a threat is impossible without knowing about, and understanding how this threat may affect you. One of the best ways to find this information can be by doing a risk assessment and looking at how the results might impact the way you do business. This includes looking at things like managing sensitive data, your threat profile or risk level or even how you share and disseminate data within the organisation. While you won’t have to go overboard at this stage, knowing some of the risks you’ll face along the way can help you to develop strategies for mitigating these risks.

One of the biggest risks any organisation can face is the usage of social engineering attacks in the wild. These attacks are often particularly damaging because they use an unwitting insider to assist in the breach. While the discussion of human…