Small businesses are as much at risk as larger businesses. You may remember that in 2017 the NHS was attacked by the WannaCry Ransomeware, despite having dedicated IT staff and plenty of resources they were still forced to cancel appointments and operations impacting on lots of people, how would such an attack harm a small business?

We’re to small

No business is too small, by compromising smaller businesses, cyber actors can gain information and send malicious files to others, allowing then launch larger, more targeted attacks, while working up the supply chain.

How can I protect my systems?

A Cyber Essentials Certification ensures you have a good security base on your systems, the key features of Cyber Essentials are:

• Secure Firewall Configuration
• User Access Controls
• Secure Client Configuration
• Virus and Malware Protection
• Patch Management

What about Training

Well we believe that the most important part of Cyber Essentials is user awareness training, often overlooked, but as 72% of breaches are related to staff receiving fraudulent emails, there is clearly a need for training, as part of our Cyber Essentials we provide regular updates on the current threats and have a staff awareness session

How to I get a Cyber Essentials Certification?

Obtaining a Cyber Essentials Certification is a fairly straight forward process, we will guide you through the process and offer sensible advice during the process whilst considering your commercial and operational needs, get in contact and we would be happy to help

We all have passwords for everything we do these days, we’re told to make them complex and then we forget them, so we write them on a post-it note and attach it to our screens! or write it in the back of our diary backwards because nobody else does that and they will never work it out!

Well here’s a novel way of remembering, how about using a ‘pass phrase’ rather than a password… For example ‘Buy 6 eggs on the way home!’ easy to remember, complex to guess and you won’t forget the eggs either!!

You can come up with your own ideas for the phrase and make it memorable for yourself, furthermore you could associate different phrases with different accounts making it much easier to remember and harder for the nasty passwords guessing attempts:

Some more examples:
Bank : Is this safer for my £1000s than under the bed!
Tesco : Don’t forget to buy 6 packets of sweets.
Work : Working 9-5 what a way to make a living!
Other : I love my 2 Children, Jack and Jill : )

The usage is limitless and produces a nice way of remembering your passwords.