10 Important Cybersecurity Practices for your Business 1. EDUCATION It’s much easier to prevent a hack than it is to recover from a hack. Once your company’s sensitive data is stolen through a ransomware attack, recovering it is often a long and arduous process. Teaching employees about basic security, personal cybersecurity, and the prevalence of cyber threats goes a long way in stopping ransomware attacks before they can really do damage. Your employees should understand that they might be targets of malicious actors, eager to exploit any entry they can find in your company. The average cost of a cyberattack is 3.86 million and the cumulative total for global cybercrime is expected to cost $6 trillion. If you don’t pay to train your employees about cybersecurity best practices eventually you may end up paying more in the long run. High quality and free trainings for your employees are available from several government resources including Department of Homeland Security. 2. BETTER
An Urgent warning has gone viral on social media recently, urging you to check your privacy settings after WhatsApp reportedly secret update. What's the truth behind this latest warning? Just days after its controversial update to facilitate data sharing with Facebook, social media is ablaze with messages suggesting the platform has suddenly updated your group privacy settings and you need to urgently change them back. You can change your settings to avoid anyone one adding you to a group without having them on your contact Follow the steps below: Go to WhatsApp: Go into Settings Go to Account Go to Privacy Go to Groups Change from (Everyone) to (My Contacts)