How Cyber security Awareness Training is Important For Startups?

cyfinityglobal
3 min readMar 27, 2021

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In today’s world, one of the important aspects of the information technology sector is Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is just a way to keep your computers, mobile devices, electronic systems, and servers safe from any sort of intruders. In IT sectors there are especially job designation for this purpose, that means company hires professional to ensure that their systems are secured and there is no chance of any unauthorized access of there systems they are known as a cybersecurity engineer

Start-ups lack behind in cybersecurity

Lately, it is assumed that only multinational companies or well-established companies need to have Cybersecurity and only there are the vulnerable to the threads of security. Which is turned out to be false as the small business and startups are the one which is mostly targeted for fetching the vital information about that organization and their customer. Startups and small businesses are the easy targets for cyber attacks due to their limited amount of knowledge, lack of money, or sometimes by simply ignoring the facts related to cybersecurity. On the other hand multinational company has there cyber analyst to ensure that there, not a single chance that they can be a target of cybersecurity threats.

Why start-ups are common targets of cyber attackers.

For a startup and small business, these types of cyberattacks can be greater threats than comparing to other huge and well-established enterprises. As their data is confined to comparatively smaller areas mean due to a lack of resources they would have fewer servers, fewer databases, and fewer firewalls to protect these devices from intruders. Moreover, these startups won’t be having great cybersecurity architecture so they will be an easy target for cyber attackers which they are always looking for.

Steps to make our business secure

  1. There should be a cyber-security analyst in the company that would ensure that the systems and servers are properly updated to stop any intruders.
  2. Startup and other small businesses should have regular penetration testing to find out the vulnerability in their security for future enhancements.
  3. The company should have a network engineer that would design a proper network for that company to make the more essential system and hold sensitive information about the company work on a private network that is separate from the local network to ensure maximum security.
  4. The company should have system engineers that will make the devices update and ready for any sort o intruder so that in case of any cyber attack the damage can be reduced.
  5. The employees of the company should be given cloud security training so that can make sure that they don’t create any vulnerability to the company.

Last Words

The startups and small businesses should realize that the data they possess are very vital to them and they should treat it as an asset. Cyber attackers are always looking for easy preys to fetch this vital information that they can use for their benefits. Therefore startups and small businesses should not neglect the cybersecurity that their system needs to grow and make their company a success.

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