5 ways to stop your business from being hacked

Online business owners need to take hacking attacks very seriously indeed, no matter what guise they come in. Data breaches, Denial of Service attacks or compromised sites being used to distribute malware will all have an impact on your business; and that includes the small business sector. In fact, small businesses are likely to suffer greater consequences as a result of of being hacked than the larger enterprise, which has the financial reliance and organisational resources to bounce back in double quick time. Ask yourself this: could your online business survive the website being offline for a week, your email service not working for days on end or the reputational (and data protection regulatory) fallout of customer data being compromised? And that doesn’t even take into account time – the most precious commodity you have as a small business owner – wasted identifying and resolving the problem. Sadly there’s no 100% guarantee that your business will be hack-free in the connected world of online business. However, here are five simple tips that will make life much harder for the would be hacker...