- 14th October, 2024
- By Riya
We all have heard of the phrase- “Chota Packet, Bada Dhamaka”.
With a fairly large part of the market being online, we see more and more small businesses being started and growing.With a fairly large part of the market being online, we see more and more small businesses being started and growing.
Not only big websites like Amazon and Flipkart, but people have started using social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook etc for promoting their work as well. A simple but effective reel can do wonders for a small business by going viral. The new generation has started to take this up as a new challenge and has started to reach great heights at very young ages.
In these cases, we see that cybersecurity is a very important thing to look for. Some important measures to be taken could be:
- Training employees and keeping them up to date with the security principles
- Protecting information, computers, and networks from cyber attacks by installing virus detection or antivirus softwares and not having any illegal downloads
- Providing firewall security for your Internet connection and not hopping on to open or public wifi networks
- Creating mobile device action plans to maintain a safe network and encrypting their data
- Installing security apps to prevent information stealing and ensuring password protection on all devices that may contain any company data
- Make backup copies of important business data and information on a regular basis
- Control physical access to your computers and create user accounts for each employee with administrative privileges to only few trusted staff members
- Secure your Wi-Fi networks, keep it encrypted and hidden well with password protection
- Employing best practices on payment cards and using different devised for processing payments and casual surfing of the internet so as to avoid frauds or targeted payment scams
- Limit employee access to data and information, limit authority to install software and keeping credentials to only trusted personnel
- Passwords must be extremely strong and secure with 2 step verification and authentication
Ensure that if you own a small business, then you have taken necessary precautions for the safety of your brand and it would help if this knowledge was passed on to other businesses that may not beware of the same. Small businesses may be an easy target for cyber theft since it does not have that big of a base but yet could boost up at any given time and thus it becomes important to keep a safe and secure online presence.
