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Designing a Cyber Defence Strategy for your Firm
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As office technology becomes the driving force behind businesses of all sizes, the need to
protect it from cyber attack grows. The thought of a data loss incident, Phishing fraud or
Ransomware is unthinkable, each with the potential to do untolled damage to customer
relations, and levy heavy fi nes.

Whilst Phishing remains the number
one threat to business, some of the
biggest frauds succeeded with no
more than a simple email instruction,
without any attachments or embedded
links. All you need to do is write a
convincing email it seems. Cyber security
breaches are never the result of something
that could not have been prevented.

Designing a Cyber defence strategy for your firm requires more than just IT. IT is certainly

important, but the fact is cyber criminals are avoiding most of the security hard and software
traps being set for them and going for the humans, who continue to be the weakest link.
This lack of appreciation of the threats is a dangerous security gap that cyber criminals are
successfully exploiting everyday. It needs to be plugged and quickly.

Defending a firm against all the usual threats requires a smart mix of IT hard and software,

management commitment, staff training, ‘Cyber Essentials’ type system controls, and

insurance. A defence package like this makes a firm a far more difficult target for the cyber
criminal to break into.