CYBER ESSENTIALS

What is the importance of staying cyber secure?

You’ll be hard pressed to find a modern-day business that doesn’t have some sort of online presence. Most organisations rely on applications and cloud-based software to process sensitive client data, share and update projects and tasks as well as store confidential financial information. It’s crucial for you and your employees to have a set protocol when it comes to protecting delicate data and ensuring this is implemented at all times.

Your intentions for storing your customers’ details are purely business related and enable you to carry out the service you promise to provide, but to cyber-criminals, this information could be immensely valuable and exploitable. Therefore, it’s essential to keep your communication lines and procedures protected and strictly controlled.

A security breach could have detrimental consequences not only for your clients, but for your business too, as compromised data could leave you exposed and your public image irrevocably damaged. Furthermore, any cyber attack has the potential to disrupt your regular trading, sometimes resulting in catastrophic financial losses.

Additionally, don’t overlook the legal consequences for failing to protect your customers' personal details. In most cases, you will be facing a fine and potentially, a drawn-out investigation into your business processes to establish any negligence on your behalf.

How can we help?

As a Cyber Essentials certified business, we are strongly positioned to help our clients take measures to protect against common cyber threats and gain the accreditation, too.

Our services cover:

• Unified threat management
• Endpoint protection
• Device control and management
• Assisting with compliance
• User awareness
• Security and risk reviews
  
  

Key benefits to Cyber Essentials:

• Reassure customers you take cyber security seriously.
• Be listed in the directory of organisations awarded Cyber Essentials.
• Attract new business with the promise that you have cyber-security measures in place.

Protecting your business and clients’ privacy is a critical task – one that you should not postpone or undervalue. As IT evolves, so too do the capabilities of cyber predators.

Get in touch to find out how you can get Cyber Essentials certified and boost your business’ security profile.