Building a Cybersecurity Strategy to Protect Your Small Business

Small business owners have one primary focus: growing their business. Within small businesses, security and IT tend to be an underserved function due to limited staffing and skills. This may be a vulnerability that bad actors take advantage of, seeing the increasing volume of attacks on small businesses.

According to an Identity Theft Resource Identity Theft Resource Center report, 45% of small businesses reported a security or data breach, while more than 45% of SMBs claimed a loss in revenue and nearly 30% lost customer trust in 2022.

As more business functions go digital, ensuring your customers take measures to secure their network and connected devices is essential to keep businesses up and running. It all starts with an end-to-end strategy covering traditional IT security, endpoint protection, policy setting, access control, and Internet security. Working with an Internet service provider that offers Internet and advanced security combined can help simplify some of your customers’ security needs.

To help protect their business, your customers should…

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

For a closer look at how your customers can help protect their business, read the full article on the Comcast Business Community site.