Regardless of the size of your business or whether it is making a profit, loss or just breaking even, no company today is immune from the risks of hacking and cybercrime. With high profile security breaches hitting the news more and more frequently, it’s no surprise that business owners of companies of all sizes around the world are stepping up their cybersecurity. Since a security breach can be so devastating to any company, fully protecting yourself is absolutely vital. Here are some of the best ways to improve cybersecurity within your business.

1.     Ethical Hackers:

Although you probably wouldn’t dream of letting a hacker near your company, a certified ethical hacker Australia is sure to do more good than harm. Ethical hacking is becoming an increasingly more popular way of testing a business’ level of cybersecurity, as somebody who knows exactly how a real hacker would try to get in is more likely to find ways around your security that the regular IT guy might not be aware of.

2.     Employee Training:

In order to ensure that everybody in your company is constantly on the look out for any possible risks or weaknesses in the cybersecurity, it’s vital to train them to the highest standard. Holding regular training sessions for your employees regarding cybersecurity will make sure that it stays fresh in their minds and they are able to easily spot the tell-tale signs of all kinds of attacks from social engineering to invasive overrides.

3.     Mock Hacking:

Sometimes, a business will need to actually get hacked in order for the owner and management to realise just how weak their security system is and work to get it updated to the highest standard as quickly as possible. However, the problem with this is that once the hacker has gotten in, the damage is already done – and this could be minimal to devastating, depending on the business and the type and scale of cyberattack. So, be sure to not let this be your business by getting an ethical hacker to perform regular tests and ‘hack in’ to see if there are any ways you can improve both security and staff response.

4.     Change Passwords Regularly:

In organisations where employees are given unique credentials to log into a system, it is important that password security is taken extremely seriously. Along with regularly updating and changing passwords in case they have fallen into the wrong hands, it is also essential to ensure that each staff member creates strong passwords that are difficult to guess and use a password manager tool rather than writing passwords down. Post-it notes or notes in desks containing login information can be more damaging to your company than you may realise.

5.     Stay Backed Up:

Regular backups of the data held by your company should be done without fail. Ransomware attacks are some of the most common when it comes to businesses, where all of your company’s sensitive information is stolen and encrypted and the hacker will blackmail you if you want it to be decrypted. Having a backup of all this information means that should you find yourself in this situation, there’s no need to hand over what they are asking for – you haven’t lost a thing.