Essential Cyber Security Best Practices to Protect Your Business (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: In this video, we will review cyber security best practices. Let's first discuss what is cyber security. Cyber security is a common term used to describe a set of practices, measures, and or actions you can take to protect personal information and your computer from attacks. Some common cyber threats are hackers, identity thieves, and malware. In addition to these risks, your organization may face a number of other consequences if you fail to take actions to protect personal information and your computer. Some of these consequences are fines from state and federal government, loss of confidentiality, integrity, and or availability of valuable organization data, research, and or personal electronic data, and lawsuits, loss of public trust, protection, internal disciplinary action, or termination of employment. Here are some ways your business can prevent cyber attacks. Employee training. Employees should not be using their work computers for personal reasons or opening email links from unfamiliar sources. Secure systems. Organizations should encrypt data, install firewalls, endpoint protection, antivirus, and update systems periodically. Monitor network. File access and network traffic should be monitored to ensure that unauthorized users are not accessing sensitive data. Backup data. Allow systems to be restored in the event of a breach. Without data backup, an organization is at risk for a ransomware attack. Be sure to be wary of invitations to download software from unknown internet sources and watch for allusions to malware and user agreements before installing free software programs. Protect your passwords. Do not share your passwords and always make new passwords that are difficult to guess by avoiding dictionary words and mixing letters, numbers, and punctuation. These are just some of the recommended cyber security best practices to protect your business from cyber attacks. We have now reviewed cyber security best practices. Please continue to the next section.