These days it may seem scary owning your own website or even opening up your email. With all the talk about Google and Adobe targeted by cyber-attacks you might wonder how you can stay safe if these big corporations cannot? Well luckily our friends at WebWorld Networks have provided us a list with ways to keep your practice’s web experience a pleasant one:
- Educate your users in the value of your information. Explain to anyone in your office the importance of keeping information private and the consequences if it is leaked. Remember if members of your staff don’t need to know the information then don’t give it.
- Create policies and enforce them. Your employees should know exactly what to do in certain situations even if it involves referring the matter to you.
- Create strong passwords. There a number of tools that can be used to “crack” passwords but you can make this extremely difficult by including numbers and symbols into your passwords.
- Use secure hosting services. Your business website should be handled professionally. Unstable hosting from discount providers can put your companies information at risk. When choosing a hosting service make sure they have 24-7 dedicated security prevention systems for network security, automatic email scanning for spam and virus detection, data backup, restore and disaster recovery measures. Data backup and hosted servers should ideally be located in a HIIPA compliant data centre, meaning they are held to strict standards of the health care industry.
- Use a secure email client. Email is the number one area of attack for cyber-criminals. Make sure you use a trusted provider like Microsoft Exchange. These email programs ensure you have backups of your emails on your computer as well as on the web and feature the most advanced security features.
This article was created for Cosmepedia members. For more cyber-security tips, services, or answers to questions you have head over to www.webworldnetworks.com and ask an IT expert.
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