The security is the unfinished business of many SMEs. No,
not everything consists of installing an antivirus. There are lots of ways that
a business can be harmed by cybersecurity problems that were not anticipated,
simply because it was thought that “this cannot happen to me”.
The truth is that prevention is one of the most effective
weapons to avoid computer security problems. Many SMEs do not know exactly what
steps to take, or if what they are doing right now is safe, or a real risk to
the integrity of their data and their privacy.
In this post we give you some indications so that you can
take care of computer security in your small or medium-sized company.
Importance of computer security in your SME
If you want near take care of your business IT, it is
important first to know what you have and what is done with it, as well as the
structure of your business.
Once the corresponding computer audit is done , decisions
will have to be made to make corrections and provide ongoing maintenance to
your computer equipment.
Fundamentally, you should keep in mind that security
problems can be of various kinds. They affect:
•The integrity of your data. You can lose them if you don't
make the proper backups.
•Privacy. Someone could use your data and access services
that you are using.
•To your economy. In the event that a bank fraud is
attempted by collecting your data, or someone takes advantage of a payment service
contracted by you, such as your Internet connection or your space on a server.
•To legality. Someone can commit crimes on your behalf,
using your IP.
How to take care of the IT security of your SME
To prevent these types of hitches from occurring, it is
important to apply computer security measures, which will affect:
•The maintenance of computer equipment. Software
vulnerabilities can be one of the things that leads to computer security
problems.
•Your computer network and Internet connection. Your IT
equipment is not isolated. It is enough that you use an Internet connection via
Wifi, or you are connected to the cloud from your mobile, so that someone can
access your company data even if your equipment is safe.
•Your employees. The human factor is also one of the
problems that can lead to security risks. Take, for example, social engineering
attacks, aimed at getting the user of a computer, in good faith, to end up
providing private data on a web page that is not what it seems.
•Your passwords. The passwords of all the services you use
are also important. Just imagine that someone found out your Gmail password.
Your email is a sensitive service, as it is connected to most of the other
services you use. The simple loss or theft of a mobile phone could put the
business at risk.
Being able to deal with these areas is not always within the
reach of everyone. In fact, experience tells us that when security is not taken
care of in a systematic way, computer problems end up happening sooner or
later.
The consequences for your company can be unpredictable,
depending on the magnitude of the IT incident. That is why it is not advisable
to wait until the problem occurs to make decisions, as there are some internal
behaviors and practices in companies that are a real time bomb for security.
Benefits of taking care of the computer security of your
business
They are your data. You don't have to worry about what
happens, but what might happen. If you don't measure risk well, sooner or later
it will end up taking its toll on you in many ways.
•Dissatisfied customers who leave your company because due
to a computer problem you have lost the jobs you were doing.
•Your hacked website gives a bad corporate image of your
business, being marked as potentially dangerous content for the user.
•Your old and outdated operating system , connected to the
Internet, assuming the risk of all viruses, Trojans and worms that could end up
affecting it, due to its great vulnerabilities.
In short, a large number of problems that will cause your
company to lose time, money and resources, if not major problems of a legal
nature, or economic losses due to having your computer assets out of combat.
At Gadae Netweb we work on computer maintenance in Madrid so
that SMEs can feel safe. Leave the security management in our hands and forget
the worries of what could happen in your business due to these computer
incidents, which by the way always happen when you least expect them.
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