Protect Your Business With Confidence – Key takeaways – notes taken:
- Never pay ransomware demands which can reach hundreds of thousands
- Over 75% of organisations lack an incident response plan
- Keep systems updated, use strong passwords, and enable 2FA
- Train staff and encourage a culture of cyber awareness
- Email accounts are the most important to secure
- Never click links in email nor open docs that come from unknown sources
- Social media can be a major source of data for fraudsters
- Back up data using the 3-2-1 rule (three copies, two locations, one offline)
- Report suspicious emails to report@phishing.gov.uk, texts to 7726
- Use free resources from the National Cyber Security Centre, including incident response guides and training
- Consider Cyber Essentials accreditation
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