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Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: 7 Best Practices for Securing Your Business Data

Cytelligence

Here are seven best practices for cybersecurity in small businesses: Employee Education and Training: Provide cybersecurity awareness training to your employees, teaching them about common threats such as phishing emails, social engineering, and the importance of strong passwords. WPA2 or WPA3).

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Top 12 Firewall Best Practices to Optimize Network Security

eSecurity Planet

Firewalls monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic while also preventing unauthorized access. Overlapping rules may impair firewall efficiency or expose flaws that allow attackers to circumvent regulations. Choose a centralized platform that is interoperable with several firewall suppliers.

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Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Cybersecurity for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Security Boulevard

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions deliver this visibility, and also supplement anti-virus protection by leveraging behavior-based signatures, machine learning, and analytics to detect advanced compromises. Fiction: Monitoring my edge firewall is the only monitoring needed.

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The State of Endpoint Security Management in 2022: It’s Worse Than You Suspect

CyberSecurity Insiders

Back then, endpoint security focused on computers, which meant the installation of antivirus, malware protection, firewall, and (sometimes) VPN in every computer. Unfortunately, it is no longer as simple as it used to be in the past. Nowadays, endpoints are way more than their numbers from a couple of decades ago.

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When It comes to Cybersecurity – An ounce of prevention

CyberSecurity Insiders

Social engineering. Social engineering is the most prevalent way threat actors find their way into your environment. Disguising themselves as legitimate web sites, email, and customer service entities they depend on people’s kindness, willingness to help and urgency to resolve perceived threats/problems.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Take The Stress Out of Securing Your Workforce

Jane Frankland

Bad actors continue to target all company sizes, from the smallest to the largest with employees at small companies (100 employees or less) seeing 350% more social engineering attacks than those at larger companies.