Introduction
If you run a business, information and cyber security should be a top priority and part of your ongoing operational activities.
Maintaining a good security posture ensures you stay compliant, maintain client trust, and protect your business from service disruptions.
There's no better time to conduct an audit of your business and identify potential gaps in your solutions/processes.
Two-Factor Authentication
We have covered how 2FA works and why you should use it in a previous article, but it's worth mentioning again.
By enabling two-factor authentication across your online accounts, you raise the bar for potential attackers trying to gain unauthorised access to them.
One of the big takeaways from that article is to ensure you enable two-factor authentication in a way that makes sense for your business. This means enabling it through a password manager or other central location that everyone can access instead of sending SMS codes to your personal phone.
Password Management
This is another one we have a whole article about. Effective use of a password manager in your organisation means that all your online accounts can be audited, passwords can be easily updated, and access to accounts can be limited per employee or department.
This also takes a lot of stress out of employee onboarding and offboarding.
Employee Offboarding
There's potentially nothing more stressful than having to part ways with an employee on less-than-amicable terms and not knowing whether they might try to disrupt your business by gaining unauthorised access to company resources.
By taking control of your online accounts with a password manager, you can easily remove access from employees and quickly update passwords with minimal effort.
Without a central location for your online accounts, you will inevitably miss something that could come back to haunt you later.
Device Security
Often overlooked, protecting your devices with antivirus, drive encryption, and backups will protect you from the loss and theft of secure data (confidential client data, for example).
Internal business infrastructure (servers, intranets, etc.) is often the best-protected part of your business. Still, the devices you put in the hands of your employees are usually overlooked and are a much easier target for attackers.
Support
If you're finding the above topics daunting and don't know where to start, good IT support is your solution.
Engaging with a professional, solutions-focused team that integrates into your business can achieve all these items (and more) with minimal fuss.
Training
The success and continued use of the above solutions will only be as good as the accompanying training.
By working with IT solution providers who understand these systems inside and out, they can provide your whole team with training, answer questions, and alleviate any trepidation around using these systems.
Conclusion
Don't wait until your business has scaled out of control to implement these processes and systems.
The tools, software, and services available to address the above topics are more accessible than ever, so don't get caught out.
Take a proactive approach to your cyber and information security in 2025; I guarantee you won't regret it.
If you would like to speak with people who help businesses around Australia with the abovementioned topics, please get in touch with us.