top tips to avoiding imminent cyber attacks within your business
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TOP TIPS TO AVOIDING IMMINENT CYBER ATTACKS WITHIN YOUR BUSINESS
ByIT Director, Rob McEwanStaples Rodway Taranaki
DON’T OPERATE YOUR COMPUTER AS AN ‘ADMINISTRATOR’
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As an administrator, every program you run has unlimited access to your computerIf malware is able to take hold through one of those programs it can access
all parts of your computer or potentially your network
UPDATE SOFTWARE, PATCHES AND UPDATES IMMEDIATELY
Update
UpdateAs soon as patches are released hackers reverse engineer the patches to identify the problems that are being addressed.
The quicker you can apply patches for all products you have installed on your computer, the less likely you will be exposed to these hackers.
REMOVE SOFTWARE THAT YOU DON’T NEED
The less applications you have on your PC, the less you have to update and the less
targets hackers have.
HAVE A REPUTABLE ANTI-MALWARE (MALICIOUS SOFTWARE) SOLUTION
INSTALLED AND USE ITS ADVANCED FEATURES
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BACKUP YOUR COMPUTER
OriginalData (1) Backup
(2) Backup
(3) Off site backup
Data should not be considered backed up until there are three copies, two of
which are backups of the first, and one of those backups must be off-site
Our Taranaki IT team work with companies to identify security
risks and help to eliminate them
Rob McEwan, IT Director06 757 [email protected]
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