INTERNET SECURITY – CHECKLIST
Be familiar with the terms & Common threats
- Become more familiar with the general terms
- Understand in broad terms, what they mean and what you can do to prevent attacks
- Become familiar with the terms (ransomware, malware, phishing, etc.) and raise awareness across the business.
Challenge the source of your IT Provision
- Ask your IT Provider to provide you with assurances that all these elements and others not expressly covered in week one’s paper are being addressed
- Does your IT Provider have evidence that they themselves are protected against cyber threats?
- Ask your IT Provider to evidence effective cyber threat protection measures. Are they independently audited? What were the findings?
Physical Security
- You can control the physical environment in which you work
- Sign in and sign out paper files and removable media
- Destroy / Shred all paper where the personal data has been saved to systems
- Control those who may operate within your business temporarily
- Only give access to staff who need access to certain areas of the business, including locked areas of the business.
Training and Awareness
- Keep all staff up to date
- Raise awareness and keep staff trained and retrained around cyber terms and the main threats
- Employ best practices across the whole business.
Communicate Securely
- Any personal information must be transmitted securely
- Secure email and peer-to-peer (portal) should be utilised.
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