Social media: protecting what you publish
How to reduce the likelihood of unauthorised content appearing within your organisation’s social media channels. If your organisation uses social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram), it’s important you take steps to reduce the likelihood of damaging content being posted on your behalf. This guidance explains how you can reduce the likelihood
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Avoiding phishing attacks
Steps to help you identify the most common phishing attacks. In a typical phishing attack, scammers send fake emails to thousands of people, asking for sensitive information (such as bank details), or containing links to bad websites. They might try to trick you into sending money, steal your details to sell on, or they may
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Protecting your organisation from malware
5 free and easy-to-implement tips that can help prevent malware damaging your organisation. Malicious software (also known as ‘malware’) is software or web content that can harm your organisation, such as the recent WannaCry ransomware attack. The most well-known form of malware is viruses, which are self-copying programs that infect legitimate software. Here are 5
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Passwords – the weakest link
5 things to keep in mind when using passwords. Your laptops, computers, tablets and smartphones will contain a lot of your own business-critical data, the personal information of your customers, and also details of the online accounts that you access. It is essential that this data is available to you, but not available to unauthorised
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5 things to consider when backing up your data.
Think about how much you rely on your business-critical data, such as customer details, quotes, orders, and payment details. Now imagine how long you would be able to operate without them. All businesses, regardless of size, should take regular backups of their important data, and make sure that these backups are recent and can be
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