With more and more businesses turning towards digital adaptation, cyberattacks have dramatically increased. According to Exploding Topics, there have been approximately 6.5 daily attacks, with more than 343 million people affected.
While a well-thought digital strategy can help you amplify your brand reach significantly, a cyberattack can adversely affect your business’s growth and revenue. Unfortunately, implementing protective measures against such attacks often comes at a higher price, leaving many SMBs (Small and mid-sized businesses) at the wind of hope.
But wait, there’s a way! Managed service providers like I.T. For Less can help your business establish a strong line of defense against online security risks. Read on to discover how I.T. For Less safeguards your business, ensuring more security and less risk!
How I.T. For Less Safeguards Your Business
Choosing a Secure Hosting Service
In today’s world, having a website is crucial to turn your business into a success story. Where features like a good design and intuitive interface will help you gain more traffic, it won’t do your business much good if it remains vulnerable.
I.T. service providers like I.T. For Less ensure your website is hosted by a PCI-compliant hosting service. A PCI-compliant hosting ensures your website’s payment and checkout processes remain impenetrable by bad actors consistently looking for loopholes to exploit.
I.T. For Less further ensures the hosting they choose comes with an SSL certificate. Choosing a hosting with an SSL certificate marks your website with HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure). An HTTPS certificate helps ensure that all communication between your website and your prospects remains encrypted.
Backing Up Your Data
No matter how many measures you implement, it always helps to have a contingency plan in action. Backing up your data ensures your business can recover quickly if it’s hit by a cyberattack, which may result due to factors like human error or a compromised network.
MSPs like I.T. For Less leverage multiple backup methods to protect your business from data loss. These backups, including quarterly, and yearly backups, help them ensure the validity of the backups, making them usable when needed the most.
I.T. For Less also implements features like cloud storage, multi-factor authentication, and strong encryption methods to ensure your data remains protected.
Implementing Email Best Practices
Emails are the gateway of communication in the business world. However, research concluded that only 50% of emails have legitimate content. This means that the other 50% falls into the spam category!
Considering the high number of spam emails revolving around it, it’s likely you and your employees receive spam emails that contain a potential security threat. These emails often use Ransomware to infect your business’s network.
In ransomware, an attacker encloses malicious content in the emails. Often promising riches or messages from celebrities, these emails give ransomware access to your computer system. Depending on the severity of the attack, recovering from ransomware may be impossible if you don’t have a backup handy.
I.T. For Less offers training sessions to aware your employees about the different attack types and how you can protect yourself from them. They insist on using antispam software and cleaning up emails regularly to avoid coming across any emails that could compromise their information and your business’s.
Regular Updates to Your I.T. Infrastructure
One of the biggest backgates a hacker can find in your system is outdated software. Your business’s software, including its operating system and security system, must be updated regularly to address any weaknesses.
The I.T. For Less team offers training sessions to inform your team about the importance of keeping their software updated. These sessions ensure your staff manually updates software whenever there is one available. I.T. For Less further proactively monitors your systems to catch any vulnerabilities or outdated software.
I.T. For Less also implements a firewall to your network. Adding a firewall adds a layer of security that monitors incoming and outgoing traffic.
Replacing Passwords
Passwords are the easiest way a hacker can gain unauthorized access to a network. After analyzing over 15 billion passwords in public data breaches, “123456” appeared to be one of the most commonly used passwords.
Many people also use passwords that are easy to guess, including their name, their pet’s name, or a combination of the two. Provided that such information about you can be accessed with a single Google search, hackers utilize tactics like brute force attacks to test them first.
When you partner with I.T. For Less, they ensure none of your staff uses an easy-to-guess password. According to the best practices, they insist on using passwords that are a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special symbols.
They also advise you to proactively change your passwords regularly and use features like two-factor authentication.
Final Words
As cyberattacks evolve, it has become crucial to protect your business from potential security threats. Operating to achieve everything for less – Less cost, less downtime, and less stress, the I.T. For Less team is fully geared to protect your business against crippling cyberattacks.
With over two decades of experience helping businesses secure their online presence, the I.T. For Less team ensures your devices, data, and network can operate safely.
So, if you don’t want to set yourself back by incurring downtime, partnering with I.T. For Less is the key. Their proactive monitoring ensures your precious time, resources, and business reputation remain stellar.
With their flat-fee pricing model, collaborating with I.T. For Less ensures you get top-tier security by only paying a minimal price. Don’t put your security at risk – schedule a free consultation today to see how I.T. For Less can solidify your business’s security measures.