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How to Formulate a Stronger Security Plan for Your Business?

Creating a strong security plan is extremely important for your business. It helps you protect your data and saves you from heavy monetary losses. This blog post will highlight some of the things that you must do to create a strong security plan for your business to protect your data from all sorts of external and internal threats.

Scrutinize Your Network and Calculate Risk Scores

 

Before you formulate a security plan for your business, you can access your vulnerabilities using Penetration testing instruments. In other words, you can determine what things you need to work on to protect your data. With the help of Introduce IDS (Intrusion Detection System), you can also set alarms for any sort of suspicious activity on your network. You can also use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) that gives you a score depending on the severity of your system's weaknesses. You can convert these numerical scores into a descriptive estimation that range from low to high or even critical. Once you understand your system's vulnerabilities, you can decide what security measures and methods you must adopt to protect your data from any potential threats.

Educate Your Employees

Trust in your employees is extremely important because they can access your network. It is better to educate them often about potential cyber threats and what they can do to protect your organization from them. You can train them to identify any suspicious emails and teach them how to set up strong passwords on the devices they use to work. You should also have strict policies against any possible misuse of data by any of the employees. Take strict action against any employee who is found responsible for any sort of activity that can risk your business’s security. 

Keep Backups 

No matter how good your security measures are, it is always better to keep a backup for your important data. Even if an unexpected breach occurs, you can easily recover your data if you have it stored on an external location or device. 

Do you want to formulate a strong security plan for your business? Contact Lean Security today to benefit from a wide range of penetration testing services. We have a decade of experience in providing effective and reliable IT solutions to protect businesses from any external threats. Contact us at +61 (2) 8078 6952 or email at info@leansecurity.com.au for more info.

How Hackers Can Penetrate Your Business Networks?

With the increasing dependency of businesses on digital data, the number of data breaches in the United States has increased almost tenfold over the last two decades. Similarly, there has been a significant increase in the global number of data breaches with confirmed data loss. Even the government institutions in the U.S were affected by cyber intrusions. This blog post will highlight how cybercriminals attack businesses.

Phishing Emails

Phishing attacks are the most common types of cybercrime in the United States. At least 65 percent of U.S. organizations have fallen prey to different types of phishing attacks through emails, social media posts, and even text messages. Cybercriminals send out fake emails while pretending to be official representatives of an organization. Downloading any links or, in some cases, even just opening the email gives hackers access to confidential data. 

Social Engineering

 Although social engineering is considered the least technical method, it has proven to be effective nevertheless. Hackers carefully study a business's patterns and determine any vulnerabilities to design their attack accordingly.

Malware Attacks

 Malware attacks are also very common. Suppose any of the employees visit any upload or download malware from a website, USB, or infected software. This can then record keystrokes, passwords, usernames, etc., and extract valuable information.

Middle Man Attacks 

 Many individuals and companies often fall prey to this common approach adopted by many hackers. In the middle man attack, hackers carefully observe an organization's activity and become involved in a conversation between two parties. Using their hacking techniques, hackers can easily impersonate both parties and access the data that both parties were trying to share. Hackers can also intercept and send and receive data without the knowledge of either of the parties involved.

Evil Twin Attack

An Evil Twin approach is similar to Middle Man Attack. The hackers imitate the original network to trick organizations and employees into submitting their confidential data. Unprotected Wi-fi internet is a common source of such attacks. Hackers simply broadcast the same SSID as the legitimate AP of the Wi-Fi and fool their desired targets into connecting their devices to it. Once the device is connected, the hacker gains access to all the data stored in that device. 

Get in touch with Lean Security to prevent hackers from attacking your business in any of these ways. We are providing external penetration testing services to help secure businesses of our clients. For more details, contact us at +61 (2) 8078 6952 or send us an email at info@leansecurity.com.au.

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