When it comes to cybersecurity, small businesses life matters, and that involves securing your small businesses, securing your customers and stakeholders (if any), while ensuring that every employee and team members, are protected and monitored.
As a Cybersecurity professional establishing and implementing cybersecurity measures for a small business, should take a series of steps and align with the goals, and mission statement of the company.
In order to achieve this, the cybersecurity professional must do the following:
- Ensuring the right person, is in charge with matters regarding security. A pentester should be responsible for all offensive security related issues, and the blue team personnel should be responsible for providing necessary updates and patches, as well as attending to cyber incidents.
- Always have an eye on your employees, as common errors due to human limitations could lead to a breach in security. And as such security awareness is very important.
This awareness can be created in the form of education on trending and possible threats, trainings on fundamentals and basic security consciousness, and simulation of real-life incidents to test employees resolves, when faced with situations that might lead to a compromise in security.
The awareness training could be in the form of simulating phishing campaigns, tailgating, or any form of trending social engineering attacks.
- Incentivizing your employees for a work well done, as a recognition of their hard work, efforts, and contribution in the growth of the company, should be a constant practise.
This would serve as a form of encouragement and reduce any ill-thoughts that may lead to insider threats.
- Limiting access to sensitive locations from certain employees should be part of the business’s cybersecurity practises. Social engineering techniques such as tailgating as previously mentioned, can be used by a malicious hacker to gain access into the organization infrastructure, and possibly access sensitive locations, if the compromised employee has access to such locations. A reason restrictive access should be implemented.
Furthermore, limiting access to sensitive locations, also prevents the possibility of a retrenched employee from going rogue (by using the access they have to destabilise the small businesses infrastructure).
- Implement different credentials, for different employees on all systems in use within the organization. This is to protect organizations sensitive resources, and track information through system-logs auditing, in the event of a cybersecurity breach.
While there are more procedures to be taken in ensuring small businesses are cybersecure, implementing these outlined simple steps do not only guarantee and shield small businesses from future cyberbreaches, but also indicates that the small business have a good cybersecurity practises or posture.
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