Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist

Don’t think your small business would be a target for cybercriminals? Think again.

• 43% of cyber attack victims are small businesses

• Within the last 12 months, 47% of SMBs have suffered cyberattacks

• The average cost of a cyberattack on a business is $200,000

• Nearly 60% of SMBs fold within six months after a cyberattack

Perform an IT security risk assessment

£ Create a disaster recovery strategy and protect your critical assets from threats by indentifying:

• Your most valuable assets

• Critical threats to your business

• Vulnerabilities

• How to improve your security status

Protect customer and proprietary data

£ Identify all third parties (and their vulnerabilities)

£ Clarify shared data and eliminate sharing unnecessary information

£ Establish controls between your company and the third-party company

Detect intrusions through mobile devices

£ Identify all devices that touch the corporation and those with access to them

£ Clarify security elements within the device

£ Ensure the ability to wipe those devices clean

£ Clarify the authority of device users to access enterprise data