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Your Business Security Journey When you start thinking about security technologies in business it can be quite overwhelming.
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What do you think about security technology in your business? When was the last time you did a risk assessment on your business? When was the last time you did a risk assessment for your customers?
The Current Technology Security Landscape Cybersecurity is no longer about the future; it is centred on what’s happening today. Analysts have been writing about threats for decades and businesses have been reading about them daily. Regulatory bodies have been discussing the need for change and governments have been leading with privacy
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legislation. Timeless IMS focus on helping and managing clients to establish and meet privacy requirements as the number of cybercrimes accelerates. We also recognise it can be uncomfortable to talk to prospects and our clients about cybersecurity because they think they have all their bases covered with the most common objections being “It won’t happen to me” and/or “My data is not attractive to hackers”. To help combat the rising threat of attacks on small and medium businesses, it’s increasingly necessary to consider security that starts at home. Turnkey solutions can provide a fully managed protection experience. Focused on discovering suspicious activity such as network changes, activity on key endpoints and servers, stolen credentials on the dark web, and suspicious O365 activity. We recognise and use a proven security architecture to ensure that our own infrastructure and all our managed client’s businesses are protected. Below are 15 ways to protect your business from a Cyberattack: 1. Perform a Security Assessment
4. Train your users and tell them about data security, email attacks; Remind them of the businesses policies and procedures 5. Protect your computers with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) 6. Utilise Multi-Factor Authentication 7. Keep all your devices up to date, especially Microsoft, Adobe and Java products 8. Subscribe to a Dark Web managed service, to know in real-time what password and accounts have been posted on the Dark Web 9. Use big data engines to review all event and security logs with Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) 10. Cloud based security with Web Gateway Security to block threats before the reach the office network 11. Mobile Device Security 12. A Firewall with Intrusion Detection and Prevention
2. Secure your email
13. Encryption, especially on mobile devices
3. Apply security policies on your devices and network
14. Backup to a local device and to the cloud
15. Cyber Insurance to protect the business income and cyber damage recovery Businesses continue to face a rise in cyber security threats and with hybrid working models common across a considerable number of UK businesses, this is set to continue throughout 2022. Chamber Patron, Timeless IMS aim to accelerate our client’s business growth. Our aim is to keep you and your business Safe - Secure – Running - Growing. Talk to Us - We work with clients who want to work with us on how technology can be used as an enabler within their business. There are plenty of client of technology and IT companies out there that follow the commodity service levels and there are also many company owners that see their IT needs as a commodity service, with no respect, value or appreciation for what technology can do for their business.
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