Bharat Bhise HNA: Cybersecurity essentials for mid-sized businesses


According to Bharat Bhise HNA, the decision which information security measures should be used across a mid-sized company’s IT infrastructure and which ones they should do without can be tough, because they may not have adequate financial resources to apply all the existing cybersecurity elements to protect the network. Cybersecurity is an issue that even mid-sized businesses should take seriously because they are already big enough to be targeted by cybercriminals.

Here are the essential security measures every business should have in place:

• A firewall, which scans incoming and outogoing network traffic. It also prevents malicious traffic from reaching your network and possibly damaging it.

• An antivirus software checks all the files downloaded by your employees from external sources, such as the internet or USB flash drive for virus signatures. Regularly updating our antivirus lets you receive alarms each time ransomware, Trojan horses, viruses, and other types of malware attempt to reach your company’s network.

• Network segmentation divides the entire company’s network into separate fragments, which means that in case hackers are able to reach the computer in one segment, they won’t be able to access the computers in the other network segments that are separated from the infected network. Cyberattacks are unable to move between network segments and damage them, thus significantly reducing the risk of corporate data theft or leakage.

• An email security solution ensures that only verified letter reach their addresses in the communication process between interacting parties. It keeps corporate data secure from malware, spoofing attacks, and other cyber threats in the communication occurring both inside and outside your company’s network.

• Intrusion detection (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) analyze all the incoming and outgoing network traffic. IDS identifies possibly threats using pattern matching or anomaly detection, while IPS blocks the identified information security attacks, so that they do not turn into major threats that can spread across the entire network.

In addition to these, Bharat Bhise HNA advises employers to train their staff to increase their cybersecurity consciousness regularly.

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