3 Ways to Protect Your Company from Online Threats

Cybersecurity within a company is a breeding ground for mistakes. Holes in your security are naturally going to pop up with so many people accessing your vital information and resources on a daily basis.

As surely the FBI protecting the White House will tell you, the key is prevention. Keeping your resources safe will take online tools that can make sure to keep snooping eyes out. Here are the three best tools you will need to keep your online resources safe.

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A firewall

Luckily, a firewall installed in a new laptop is almost a given nowadays, but these are on a subscription basis, so make sure they haven’t run out. However, you might want to upgrade your firewall for corporate use.

Firewalls are exactly what they sound like: the protective wall around your company resources keeping cyber attackers out. They shield your computer and network from network traffic coming through the internet that it deems to be unnecessary or malicious.

Firewalls, paired with a VPN allow for the strongest level of security. Employees can work anywhere, knowing that they have end-to-end encryption around their access to a firewall-protected resource.

A business VPN

The matter of what is a corporate VPN, is simple enough in that it is a far more advanced version of a traditional VPN.

A traditional VPN is designed simply to keep you anonymous while online, by masking your IP address wherever you go, but a corporate VPN does a lot more. A corporate VPN acts as a doorman, allowing access to employees as you allow it, with end-to-end encryption ensuring that the access given is secure, no one hopping in behind them. You can allow access temporarily to those who need it, or block access if your employee’s device is stolen or if they are no longer in their role.

A corporate VPN will also record every employee’s actions while on the company network. If you were to find an anomaly, like more broadband being used than expected, someone accessing something off limits, or something else, you can gain an audit and pinpoint who managed to access what.

A VPN will also allow your employees to work remotely. Whether they’re working from home or travelling for work, they can connect to any network, even public Wi-Fi, and the end-to-end encryption will protect your data.

An antivirus software

Despite advancements in Google and Microsoft’s ongoing battle with viruses, and as grateful as we are, you do still need antivirus software. New malware is constantly emerging, with 350,000 new pieces of malware registered every day. Would you want to be one of their victims before the tech giants can squash it?

Your devices will be constantly scanned by the anti-virus software for viruses, malware, and any other perceived cyber threats. Once it’s found something, it will quarantine and dispose of the contaminated file.

Today, anti-virus software uses behavior-based detection to find hidden viruses that aren’t in existing databases, for an extra level of security.

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