5 Major Reasons Big Businesses Are Ramping Up their Network Security

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Alert big business owners already know who is working harder than their IT staff. It is a variety of clever cybercriminals intent on creating havoc with their business by interfering with the security medium and small businesses with whom they conduct business. That includes the supply chain, partners and suppliers. The following reasons are five ways to keep ahead of network security damage in your business.

1.Customers expect perfection.

Close is not good enough. Businesses work around the clock and even a few minutes of daily downtime, regardless of the reason, may cost your business a contract and valuable customer. Determine who in the company should activate a backup plan and how it will be enforced.

2.Responsibility deserves credit.

The team and leader deal with a subversive, brilliant class of cybercriminals daily. Think about the sophisticated corporations larger than yours that have faced issues because of bugs, viruses and breaches. Determine the level of training required for the security team and arrange for it to be done. Your IT chief has likely been insisting on encryption for years! Let it be done properly and acknowledge their efforts to keep data and transmissions safe.

3.Create proper classification of data before sending it to the cloud.

Need-to-know data is information that causes the greatest risk if compromised. Label it restricted. Confidential information usually would cause moderate risk to the company if it was accessed by other than the department or company owning it. Non-sensitive data can be identified as public information with little or no control. There is minimal or no risk if another party sees it. Above all, encrypt all documents and data you do not wish to share BEFORE sending it to the cloud.

4.Ex-employees are threats. Even one can affect your company and clients in all directions.

They may have access to logins and passwords beyond the ones needed for their own position. The practice of allowing co-workers and team members access to files and records they have not been authorized to access is still a common practice, despite warnings about the danger. Example s of aggressive managed network security procedure include weekly IT-changed passwords for each employee and defining who can access company applications and the type(s) of devices used for that access.

5.The Internet of Things (IoT) delivers a connectivity threat from devices used on a daily basis.

Smart televisions and home thermostats are just two examples of connected devices with little or no security safeguards. Internal equipment used to send instructions is open to invasion.

Steps for ramping up network security include verifying that any person or business with access to company data is at least equal to the security requirements of each customer’s business. Make online security a priority and learn all you can about the latest cyber-threats. That will provide the power you need to support the methods and actions aimed at defeating the threat.