Building a Cybersecurity Strategy to Protect Small Businesses

For your customers, security may be an underserved function, and is often an underestimated risk by small business owners. You can’t fault them, as many of the cybersecurity attacks and breaches we see splashed across headlines happen at huge enterprise organizations.

That doesn’t mean, however, that small businesses aren’t a target to hackers. On the contrary, most small businesses have been attacked. According to Accenture’s Cost of Cybercrime Study, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses, but only 14% are prepared to defend themselves.

There are real stakes, and the sophistication of modern security threats continues to advance. And while most small businesses won’t be able to pull together the resources of an enterprise security team, there are still key steps business owners can take to begin closing security loopholes and protecting themselves now.

It all starts with an end-to-end strategy covering traditional IT security, mobile protection, policymaking, access control, WiFi security, and more. As your customers build out their strategy, there are some key pillars they should want to focus on:

• Understand the risk and identify key digital assets
• Protect their network access
• Safeguard their access credentials
• Educate users
• Ensure that network equipment and devices are updated frequently
• Maintain backup and recovery
• Tap outside expertise

For a closer look into these pillars and building a cybersecurity strategy, read the full article on the Comcast Business Community.