3 Ways to Keep Your Business Safe from Cybersecurity Threats

Cybersecurity has become a growing necessity for businesses. In the past ten years, cybercrime has transformed from specialist crime to one of the most significant strategic risks worldwide, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report. The report warns that the initial surge in cybercrime is due to the pandemic's reliance on digital systems, as many employees began working from home; this opened the door to human error and unprotected networks.

Many businesses believe cybercriminals only target large corporations, but this is not necessarily the case. Small businesses are compelling targets because they often have fewer resources and lack security expertise compared to larger corporations. This puts small businesses at a disadvantage, as it makes them more vulnerable to spear-phishing attacks and cybercriminals taking advantage of their digital systems.

As cybercrime grows and becomes more advanced every year, it is more important than ever for large and small companies to understand how these types of attacks affect their operations and take appropriate steps to protect themselves. As a result, we have devised three ways to ensure your company and employees are safe from cybercriminals: Employee security awareness training, email protection, and endpoint antivirus protection.

Employee Security Awareness Training

When businesses were required to work remotely during the pandemic and alter their operations to slow the spread of the virus, cybercriminals adapted to spread other types of viruses. As employees started working from home, they could access shared networks from multiple devices, including personal devices that lack a work computer's security level. This allowed cybercriminals to engage in more entries of attack, including their home network and home devices that can access company files. A recent study found that 98% of remote workers use personal devices to work daily, so it's no surprise that 67% of business-impacting cyber-attacks target remote workers.

One way for businesses to protect their employees operating on their work devices outside the office is through Employee Security Awareness Training. This training is designed for your employees, management team, and company leaders to equip them with the knowledge they need to spot attempts to break into your systems. Through comprehensive cybersecurity awareness training, we will educate your employees on threats such as spam, phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, and more, turning your staff into a "human firewall” for your business. This training reduces the risk of employees making common mistakes that give hackers access to valuable data and system programs.

Email Protection 

There are many ways cybercriminals can break into your system, including malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks, to name a few. Many companies are unaware of their vulnerability if their email environment isn't sufficiently protected. Email remains the primary reason for cyber breaches and incidents, as stated recently in a public service announcement issued by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Therefore, email security should be considered a fundamental cybersecurity component for your business. Employees account for 52% of the leading cause of security breaches, so even one malicious email in an employee’s inbox can lead to account hacking, compromised data, reputational damage, and ultimately devastation of an entire organization.

Email protection is essential to protecting your business from cybercriminals. Our Advanced Email Protector protects against spam, email viruses/malware, and other types of email-based attacks that are often overlooked. At the same time, it provides encryption and filtering of outbound emails to prevent any sensitive internal information from being inadvertently sent by your employees, which helps prevent internal security leaks of data.

Our Advanced Email Protector is customized with features like sign-in links that can only be used from the device that initially requested access. If a different device attempts to sign in, the link is invalidated, and the session is blocked. Plus, all data stored in your email expires after one year or earlier if the user chooses, and there are plenty more protective features.

Endpoint Protection 

As stated by Gartner’s Top Security and Risk Management Trends for 2022, a persistently expanding attack surface is one of the leading, and most significant security challenges businesses face in 2022 and in years to come. Previously, companies only had to worry about securing their office network locations and a certain number of devices within the organization. However, as employees transitioned into working from home, this extended the attack surface to employees' home networks and personal devices. This shift not only reduces companies’ visibility to their employees, but it also opens the floodgates to more entry points for cybercriminals, ultimately increasing cybersecurity risks.

If one of an employee's endpoints is vulnerable, this can be accompanied by various cyberattacks, like ransomware or even a data breach. Cyberattacks like these can make it incredibly hard for a business to recover from in terms of cost and the damage it will cause to their reputation. These are the reasons why companies need to invest in endpoint security. All businesses should have preventative measures to ensure the protection of the company and its employees, and with Endpoint Antivirus Protection, you’ll be able to do just that.

Endpoint Antivirus protection is an extensive IT platform that works effectively to secure business users and their data while working to make systems more efficient and reliable. Our proactive whitelist security stack approves a set list of email addresses, IP addresses, domain names, or applications while denying all others outside of that list, seamlessly protecting your organization from viruses/malware and ransomware threats that optimize your cyber infrastructure.

Telesystem is here for your Cybersecurity Needs

When it comes to your business, we know it's more than making a profit, making products, and selling "x" amount of merchandise. It's how an employee puts food on the table for their family. It's the CEO’s reminder of the decision they made to be an entrepreneur and start their own company in their twenties. It's every employee's home away from home.

We understand that our businesses are more than what meets the eye, the relationships we make, and the leaps and bounds we’ve taken to get where we are. At Telesystem, we want to see you succeed. We want to protect your business, your home away from home, from those who do not think about the faces behind the company or the person whose credentials they are stealing.

We don’t want to see your company fall victim to the cybercriminals of the world. With these three steps, you are putting yourself and your company at an advantage. It’s time to outsmart the bad guys and ensure the protection of your business and employees. With our employee security awareness training, email protection, and endpoint antivirus protection, you’ll be able to rest assured that your company is safe.