How To Defend Your Business Against Cyber-Attacks

Cyber Attack, Don’t Panic! How to handle the situation should you become a victim

What would you do if your business was the victim of cyber-attack? How would you handle the situation?  The BBC’s Technology correspondent Mark Ward recently published a great article describing what it could be like to be a victim of a rogue cyber-attack.

It’s essential reading for small businesses (read it in full here), because of how it addresses the typical real-life scenario of events that play out following a serious data breach and highlights how easy it is for businesses without a robust IT security strategy in place to become victims.

Steps To Take

At Dragon IS, we can protect your organisation and data from such an attack with a robust IT security plan which includes:

1. A step-by-step data breach plan
2. Allocated roles and responsibilities for designated employees
3. Ensuring all employees are familiar with the plan, updates and contact persons
4. Training of employees – so they can identify threats
5. Methodology to collect evidence for the Information Commissioner when the breach is reported
6. A Cyber-insurance provider is engaged by the client

How Dragon IS Keep You Secure

Should one of our clients experience such a data breach, as the Managed Service Provider we will:

• Investigate and identify where the demand/ransomware came from
• Ensure we contain infected devices and get them offline
• Immediately assess the machines that have been affected
• Work with the client to restore lost data from back-ups
• Work with the client to inform customers if their data has been compromised
• Have a plan in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Interested To Know More?

If you’d like Dragon IS to help you with your IT security strategy, please contact us today!