What is Cyber Threat ?

Cyber threats?refer to a malicious attack to unlawfully access confidential data, disrupt projects and damage communication?causing a serious setback to any business. Both Individual and business are prone to cyber threats, but corporations are more vulnerable to it.

There are various motives behind a cyber attack, and one of the most common is?ransom.?Cyber criminals hack a system making it useless and demand money to restore its functionality, popularly called as?Ransomware.?Another motive involves data theft for data of a business including lists of clients, financial data of customers, email addresses, credit card information, login credential, access to IT infrastructure and sensitive personal data.

How to protect your business from Cyber Attacks ?

Protecting your software and system against cyber threats is as important as putting a lock on your door, each moment of an unprotected network is exposing you to?thousands of cyber threats and data breaches. follow the given steps to eliminate any prima facie threat to your system:

?1.Train your Employees:

Most of the leakages happen through employees when they unknowingly click on any foreign link exposing the company's details to an outsider, so this is very important to give your staff primary training so that they can differentiate between secured and unsecured sources and be aware of current trends in cyber attacks, direct them to check a link before clicking on them, check the email address before opening any email and cross check before sending any important information.

2.Keep your system Updated:

Not keeping your software and system updated weakens the whole security system of your company and this weakness can lead to unauthorized invasion of cyber criminals to your network, it is important to eliminate such threats by taking preventive measures, you can invest in a patch management system to keep your system up to date and safe.

3.Install a Firewall:

Having a firewall is one of the most popular and successful ways of defending your system against a cyber breach because there are so many forms of data breaches and new one develops every day. But when you install a firewall it blocks any dangerous link or source before it can attack and do damage to your system.

4.Backup your Data:

Your Data is the engine running your business, No company can afford data loss in case of any disaster or a cyber attack. so it is better to back up all your data to prevent any serious downtime or financial loss.?We backup your data using world class backup solutions such as Acronis cloud , EaseUs or Veem backup solutions

5.WiFi Security:

In the ever changing working atmosphere, every system is connected to one or another WiFi network further increasing the risk of invasion by unknown sources. Any device can get infected by connecting to an insecure network and thereafter it can even infect a secure network when connected putting the whole business network at risk. Therefore it is very important to secure and hide your WiFi network.

6.Passwords:

Remembering password is one of the toughest tasks to avoid this, we often put the same password for different working platforms, putting our system at definite risk of hacking as it becomes easier for hackers to get over your system by breaking only one password they can get access to all your platforms and information, hence it is necessary to put different and difficult passwords for all the platforms

With Chipin as your Managed IT Security Service Provider (MSSP), you no longer have to worry about any upcoming cyber threats or attacks as our A to Z solutions cover everything, security of your system and software becomes our priority.

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