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Importance ofSME Cyber Security
- 1 Business disruption
- 2 Reputational damage
- 3 Intellectual Property
- 4 Third Party Relationships
- 5 Data breaches, security breaches, & regulatory fines
There is no absolute failsafe. If anyone says there is, they don’t understand risk management.
Why is Cyber Security aChallenge for Businesses?
Lack of Preparedness
Although technological advancements such as the latest network topologies without perimeters are making our lives easier, multiple security challenges are posed to endpoints, internet traffic, added software and cloud capabilities. The following are the main security challenges faced by small organisations:
Budget Constraints
Budgets are indeed limited in small organisations. It is equally true that senior management is sometimes unaware of the technological edge of the business and how UK SMEs are an easy target for cybercriminals. This should not be a tick in the box approach if security did for service in the case of GDPR, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS.
Sensitive Information Theft (Insider Threats)
Although technological advancements such as the latest network topologies without perimeters are making our lives easier, multiple security challenges are posed to endpoints, internet traffic, added software and cloud capabilities. The following are the main security challenges faced by small organisations:
Mobile Workforce
Although every organisation wants to use the latest gadgets in the market, SMBs don’t have the resources and processes to think it through from a risk perspective. Therefore, mobile devices, BYOD policies may present a wide gap in the IT risk posture.
Overreliance on IT Service Providers
IT service providers solve all technological challenges for SMBs as they are the ‘go-to’ people for anything IT-related. IT security is a different ball game because no one solution can protect your small business. Whilst it is possible your IT service provider is good at security offerings, the majority of small business IT service providers are no more than product resellers for firewalls and antivirus solutions. These cyber security solutions for small businesses sold as the one-stop solution do not make an informed choice.
Security Services for Small Businesses
Basic Hygiene
We review all your most valuable assets, identify the areas of greatest risk of cybercrime and prepare you for the most common cyber attacks and provide further information if you opt for our cyber security solutions for small businesses.
- Help with Cyber Essentials Certification
- Prepare against common attacks
- Ideal for 1-5 employees
SME Health Check
We review your major assets and the security of your communication controls and ensure best practice of data security in employees, helping you to seek certification of Essentials Plus.
- Cybersecurity Health Check and onsite debrief
- Help achieve Essentials Plus
- Phishing Testing
SME Managed
We review all your most valuable assets to identify your highest risk areas and determine the right approach to optimise your security, with an IT Health Check and Managed Services quarterly.
- SME Health Check included
- Managed Phishing and Open Source Intel
- Managed Services – Network and Applications
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SME BasicHygiene
SMEHealth Checkup
- Perimeter Firewall & Internet Gateway
- Secure Configuration
- Access Control
- Malware Protection
- Patch Management
SMEManaged
- Security Awareness Workshop
- Phishing campaigns quarterly
- Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) quarterly
- Scanning of internet-facing infrastructure and applications quarterly
By following the procedures described above, you can significantly reduce the likelihood of your company being a victim of cyber crime.
Organisations must be prepared to tackle such threats, with handy plans on what to do if this happens and accountability allocated via people, processes and technological controls. See our detailed post on ransomware and what to do if a business is hacked that helps SME customers.
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Key Benefits ofIT Security Compliance
Key Benefits
- Establish a security conscious culture
- Minimise costs and maximise efficiency
- Demonstrate supply chains assurance
- Cloud computing for small businesses
- Pro-active approach towards security
- Protect against evolving threats such as ransomware attack, insider attack and malware
- Boosts security mechanisms and encourages cultural changes
- Establish a security conscious culture
- Minimise costs and maximise efficiency
- Demonstrate supply chains assurance
- Cloud computing for small businesses
- Pro-active approach towards security
- Protect against evolving threats such as ransomware attack, insider attack and malware
- Boosts security mechanisms and encourages cultural changes
Our Pentest Engagement Approach
Which one is your security strategy?
Our Partnership WillEnable You To:
- Protect your business against evolving network & infrastructure threats
- Check services, patching, passwords, configurations & hardening issues
- Internal, external, network segregation & device reviews
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
- Helps shape IT strategy & investments
- Assess real-world threats to web applications
- Validate secure design best practices against OWASP Top 10
- Timely check to avoid common pitfalls during development
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- Assess real-world mobile app security vulnerabilities
- Validate secure design & configuration best practices
- Increased flexibility and productivity of users through secure mobile offerings
- Ensure strong mobile app authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find mobile app or device loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Compliance Support
- Better visibility on cloud process aligning
- Secure validation of internal and third party integrations
- Support ever changing regulatory/compliance requirements
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Demonstrate data security commitment
- Less is more – reduced costs, servers and staff
- Attack surface analysis to identify high risk areas and blind spots
- Improve your security team’s efficiency
- Streamline your IT spends
- Lower Risks and Likelihood of Data Breaches
WHICH ONE IS YOUR SECURITY STRATEGY?
Our Partnership WillEnable You To:
- Protect your business against evolving network & infrastructure threats
- Check services, patching, passwords, configurations & hardening issues
- Internal, external, network segregation & device reviews
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
- Helps shape IT strategy & investments
- Assess real-world threats to web applications
- Validate secure design best practices against OWASP Top 10
- Timely check to avoid common pitfalls during development
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- Assess real-world mobile app security vulnerabilities
- Validate secure design & configuration best practices
- Increased flexibility and productivity of users through secure mobile offerings
- Ensure strong mobile app authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find mobile app or device loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Compliance Support
- Better visibility on cloud process aligning
- Secure validation of internal and third party integrations
- Support ever changing regulatory/compliance requirements
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Demonstrate data security commitment
- Less is more – reduced costs, servers and staff
- Attack surface analysis to identify high risk areas and blind spots
- Improve your security team’s efficiency
- Streamline your IT spends
- Lower Risks and Likelihood of Data Breaches
Reliable and adept at small business network security services
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