Cyber Security Awareness month. Think Before U Click!
Better cyber safe than sorry!
Cyber security is a major concern to many companies. The need to arm oneself is ever-increasing. How do you protect your company against a cyberattack? Should you pay ransom or not?
An international food company with production sites located all over the world was faced with hacking.
On the one hand, it could be ransomware, which means that hackers encrypt your systems and demand a ransom. This way various production sites cannot produce, clients cannot be supplied and everything comes to a standstill for at least a couple of days. On the other hand, hackers can also steal sensitive documents or images (from internal cameras) and threaten to make them public. Can you escape this by paying the ransom? Or not?
3 tips!
Arrange your backup and antivirus software in advance
Do you wish to protect your company against hacking? Then you should act both preventively and reactively.
Segmenting your system and investing in decent antivirus software are just a few examples of preventive measures that might make a difference. Store your backup at an external location. 56% of all hacked organisations are able to recover their data thanks to a good backup.
Identify suspicious emails!
Your employees are the next defence. They should be able to recognise suspicious emails and know how to deal with them. This way, you create a human firewall.
Hacked? Do not pay the ransom!
Even though some people do it, we strongly advise against it. On the one hand, there is no certainty that criminals will hand over the key or will not share the images anyway. They might even increase the ransom or return you a lot of useless data. On the other hand, you are perpetuating cybercrime by paying the ransom.
Food Security helps my company by:
Providing some tools. Use these tools to develop a cyber incident guide, give trainings about passwords/Phishing/GDPR/Social engineering/Safe telework, put up posters to create awareness, etc.
Interesting links:
providing a partner who will draw up a cyber trajectory. They will map your network in advance. Only then they will be able to help your company during a cyberattack.
Giving cyber security awareness training. Here, we will focus on recognising and dealing with various cyber phenomena.
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