Advice on cyber security measures for Irish SMEs
Businesses in Ireland should take steps to ensure they apply appropriate cyber security controls. As a starting point for protecting your business data, assets, and reputation, we recommend the following six measures:
1. Identify what matters most
Safeguarding your business’ assets against threats is paramount to its success. Asset identification involves recognising and recording all the valuable assets within your company, ranging from data and systems to infrastructure and personnel.
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2. Keep devices and software up-to-date
Ensure that you understand your business obligations around updating your business systems if you use externally managed services such as cloud-hosted services.
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3. Implementing basic protection
By taking the initiative to deploy basic protections, including regular updates, turning on firewalls, and installing anti-malware and encryption, you can secure your IT systems and your business.
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4. Turn on MFA
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires anyone logging into an account to provide not only their username and password but also something else, such as a unique code sent via text message or generated by an authenticator app. According to Microsoft, implementing MFA can prevent 99.9 percent of account attacks.
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5. Back up your information
One of the most effective ways to safeguard your data is by backing it up regularly. The main reason for a data back-up is to ensure that you don’t lose any of your important business or customer information.
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6. Create long strong complex passwords
Remember, one of the easiest and most effective ways to safeguard your business data is by using strong passwords or passphrases.
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