Cyber protect your business for free: Part 2
Last week we talked about organisations that provide cyber security guidance, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. This week, we’re listing a few sites online where you can find free cyber security training for you and your staff. Cyber security training It’s important that you and your staff are aware of potential cyber security risks, and understand how to protect ...
Cyber protect your business for free: Part 1
Last year, as part of Leeds Digital Festival, we hosted a webinar as a guide to official cyber security advice and tools available for free. We thought we’d follow that by providing links to the key information that Kevin Else (Director, Click and Protect) shared with webinar attendees for you here. Today we’re going to look at organisations that provide ...
Get Cyber Security Fit: social media
While social media can work really well for marketing your small business, and is great for communicating with customers, it can also create unwanted security issues. Someone with access to your accounts can post anything they choose. This could be very damaging to your reputation, and could potentially reveal confidential business information or sensitive customer information to the world. Sometimes ...
Getting Cyber Security Fit for 2023: passwords
Strong passwords make up the third element of the ‘Get Cyber Security Fit’ trio that we have been covering. In case you missed it: the first two were backups, and antivirus plus firewalls. According to NordPass, who collate a list of the most common passwords every year, the most common ones in 2022 in the UK were:
- password (which ...
Getting Cyber Security Fit for the New Year Series: Antivirus & Firewalls
Antivirus and firewalls – what is the difference between them? In case this is a question you’ve never quite liked to ask, we thought we’d give you a quick description of each, and then some actions to take to make sure that these essential tools are in the best possible condition and ready for action. Antivirus Antivirus software is a ...
Getting Cyber Security Fit for the New Year Series: The Backup
Does it seem like cyber security people are always going on about backups? This is because it matters. It really matters. These days, much of your business information is likely to be stored electronically (on your phone, on your laptop, in the cloud…). We tend to think that this means it is safe, but it isn’t, necessarily. Just as paper ...
