Essential Cyber Security for Your Small Business: How to Protect Your Small Business from Cyber Attacks, Hackers, and Identity Thieves Without Breaking the Bank

Essential Cyber Security for Your Small Business: How to Protect Your Small Business from Cyber Attacks, Hackers, and Identity Thieves Without Breaking the Bank
Author: James Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0359804179

One in five small businesses fall victim to cybercrime each year. Cybercrime costs the global economy billions of dollars each year and is expected to continue to rise because small businesses are considered low-hanging fruit and easy prey for criminals. Inside You'll find practical, cost-effective ways to protect you, your clients' data, and your reputation from hackers, ransomware and identity thieves. You'll learn: -The truth about Windows updates and software patches -The 7 layers of security every small business must have -The top 10 ways hackers get around your firewall and anti-virus software -46 security tips to keep you safe and more.

Small Business Information Security

Small Business Information Security
Author: Richard Kissel
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1437924522

For some small businesses, the security of their information, systems, and networks might not be a high priority, but for their customers, employees, and trading partners it is very important. The size of a small business varies by type of business, but typically is a business or organization with up to 500 employees. In the U.S., the number of small businesses totals to over 95% of all businesses. The small business community produces around 50% of our nation¿s GNP and creates around 50% of all new jobs in our country. Small businesses, therefore, are a very important part of our nation¿s economy. This report will assist small business management to understand how to provide basic security for their information, systems, and networks. Illustrations.

ISSE/SECURE 2007 Securing Electronic Business Processes

ISSE/SECURE 2007 Securing Electronic Business Processes
Author: Norbert Pohlmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834894184

This book presents the most interesting talks given at ISSE/SECURE 2007 - the forum for the interdisciplinary discussion of how to adequately secure electronic business processes. The topics include: Identity Management, Information Security Management - PKI-Solutions, Economics of IT-Security - Smart Tokens, eID Cards, Infrastructure Solutions - Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Data Protection, Legal Aspects. Adequate information security is one of the basic requirements of all electronic business processes. It is crucial for effective solutions that the possibilities offered by security technology can be integrated with the commercial requirements of the applications. The reader may expect state-of-the-art: best papers of the Conference ISSE/SECURE 2007.

Cybersecurity: A Business Solution

Cybersecurity: A Business Solution
Author: Rob Arnold
Publisher: Threat Sketch, LLC
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 069294415X

As a business leader, you might think you have cybersecurity under control because you have a great IT team. But managing cyber risk requires more than firewalls and good passwords. Cash flow, insurance, relationships, and legal affairs for an organization all play major roles in managing cyber risk. Treating cybersecurity as “just an IT problem” leaves an organization exposed and unprepared. Therefore, executives must take charge of the big picture. Cybersecurity: A Business Solution is a concise guide to managing cybersecurity from a business perspective, written specifically for the leaders of small and medium businesses. In this book you will find a step-by-step approach to managing the financial impact of cybersecurity. The strategy provides the knowledge you need to steer technical experts toward solutions that fit your organization’s business mission. The book also covers common pitfalls that lead to a false sense of security. And, to help offset the cost of higher security, it explains how you can leverage investments in cybersecurity to capture market share and realize more profits. The book’s companion material also includes an executive guide to The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. It offers a business level overview of the following key terms and concepts, which are central to managing its adoption. - Tiers - Profiles - Functions - Informative References

Cybersecurity For Dummies

Cybersecurity For Dummies
Author: Joseph Steinberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119560357

Protect your business and family against cyber attacks Cybersecurity is the protection against the unauthorized or criminal use of electronic data and the practice of ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information. Being "cyber-secure" means that a person or organization has both protected itself against attacks by cyber criminals and other online scoundrels, and ensured that it has the ability to recover if it is attacked. If keeping your business or your family safe from cybersecurity threats is on your to-do list, Cybersecurity For Dummies will introduce you to the basics of becoming cyber-secure! You’ll learn what threats exist, and how to identify, protect against, detect, and respond to these threats, as well as how to recover if you have been breached! The who and why of cybersecurity threats Basic cybersecurity concepts What to do to be cyber-secure Cybersecurity careers What to think about to stay cybersecure in the future Now is the time to identify vulnerabilities that may make you a victim of cyber-crime — and to defend yourself before it is too late.

Protecting Your Assets

Protecting Your Assets
Author: John Schaefer
Publisher: Eastvale Solutions Incorporated DBA Eastvale Publishin
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781950353002

Small businesses make up over 90% of all businesses, and they account for nearly 50% of the gross domestic product. Yet, other than the bad guys, there isn't a lot of focus on cybersecurity for small businesses. This book aims to help small businesses learn what the bad guys are after, and how they can protect their businesses.

Cybersecurity for Business

Cybersecurity for Business
Author: Larry Clinton
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1398606391

Balance the benefits of digital transformation with the associated risks with this guide to effectively managing cybersecurity as a strategic business issue. Important and cost-effective innovations can substantially increase cyber risk and the loss of intellectual property, corporate reputation and consumer confidence. Over the past several years, organizations around the world have increasingly come to appreciate the need to address cybersecurity issues from a business perspective, not just from a technical or risk angle. Cybersecurity for Business builds on a set of principles developed with international leaders from technology, government and the boardroom to lay out a clear roadmap of how to meet goals without creating undue cyber risk. This essential guide outlines the true nature of modern cyber risk, and how it can be assessed and managed using modern analytical tools to put cybersecurity in business terms. It then describes the roles and responsibilities each part of the organization has in implementing an effective enterprise-wide cyber risk management program, covering critical issues such as incident response, supply chain management and creating a culture of security. Bringing together a range of experts and senior leaders, this edited collection enables leaders and students to understand how to manage digital transformation and cybersecurity from a business perspective.

Small Business, Big Threat

Small Business, Big Threat
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015
Genre: Cyberinfrastructure
ISBN:

Computers at Risk

Computers at Risk
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1990-02-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309043883

Computers at Risk presents a comprehensive agenda for developing nationwide policies and practices for computer security. Specific recommendations are provided for industry and for government agencies engaged in computer security activities. The volume also outlines problems and opportunities in computer security research, recommends ways to improve the research infrastructure, and suggests topics for investigators. The book explores the diversity of the field, the need to engineer countermeasures based on speculation of what experts think computer attackers may do next, why the technology community has failed to respond to the need for enhanced security systems, how innovators could be encouraged to bring more options to the marketplace, and balancing the importance of security against the right of privacy.