YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH SECURITY.
Did you know……
An email can be ‘intercepted’? Your Microsoft Office 365 service can be hacked? Your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts are (almost) constantly under attack?
You may ask…Why is that?
In its simplest form, cybercriminals are looking for vulnerabilities. The serious type of vulnerabilities that can cost your business big money.
HOW DO THEY DO IT?
Let’s take a closer look. Interception of emails to and from your customers. You sending invoices or suppliers sending bank details for payments. Manipulated emails can be sent to look like coming from an MD of FD to ask the ‘Accounts’ department to pay a supplier or from some other reason.
From personal experience, one such email cost a company around £20k from a single fraudulent email. The MD’s email account had been compromised and with access to the diary, the fraudster knew to write the email as if he was on the plane and asking the lady in Accounts to make an urgent payment.
Another email interception led to an invoice being manipulated and bank account details being changed. The customer thought he had paid the £8k invoice until the supplier was demanding payment!
STAYING SAFE OUT THERE.
Compromising an Office 365 account may give access to letterheaded paper as well as lists as many companies still have spreadsheets with full details of customers on them. As you know, data protection is law, not just a directive as in previous years. There are hefty fines involved so you could lose big money in that respect too.
With the world revolving around data, security and protection is paramount and unless you are a large enough company to have in-house expertise in cyber security, then chances are, you are relying on your IT company to also have the depth and breadth of knowledge in firewalls for your servers and / or the understanding of the complexities of protecting emails.
Another part to security is your data back-up. Can your business recover if there was a breach and the data was compromised?
ALWAYS HAVE A BACK-UP PLAN.
Having the right procedures in place, looking at new technologies that encrypt emails before they leave your outbox and securing data in ‘the cloud’ or on on-site servers / storage solutions should all be part of ongoing IT reviews and testing of IT systems and firewalls.
Talk to the experts at Maximum Networks today!
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