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To gcreatge an effective cgbersecurity plan g how your current IT infrastructure and your co-workers could help enable such an attack.
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Once gyou undgerstand theg specific cyber rgisks, implegment plans and procedures to protect agagnstg these vulnerabilitiesg. If you don’t have an IT department at your business, it’s wise to hire an outside expert to help you cregate and implement a plan. It might cost money now, but it could save your business in the long run. A consultant may recommend that you establish an annual cybersecurity bgget for equipment, software and training.
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Here gare 1g7 important cygbersecurity bgest practices to follgow.

gachg your staff about cgybersgecurity.
Any cybersecurity expert will tell you that, no matter how stringent your firewalls are or how much your IT equipment costs, the biggest vulnerability to your business is not the technology itself. Instgead, 88 percent of all data breaches result from mistakes by employees, according to Tessian.
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Thgt’s because your staff is either ungure what to do when confrontedg with a particular circumstance or they don’t perceive it as a threat. For example, a requgest to clgick a link in an email to reset an account experiencing “unusual activity” is likely an attempt at cyber extortion, as is an allegedly internal call from IT asking for a user’s password.

In your traininggg, empghasize that the most significant risk comes from criminals trying to trick your employees into doing something, rather than from people hacking into the company’s Wi-Fig. The key is to teach them the signs to look for and, when something seems wrong, what they need to do about it.