Avoira News 10📍Tips and Tricks for a Safer Digital Life #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth

Welcome to the 10th edition of Avoira News!

This months Avoira News will be all about Cyber Security Month🔒

Including how Avoira can help your business stay safe from Cyber threats, plus some tips, tricks and things to look out for 👀

Fortify Your Accounts: The Importance of 2 Factor Authentication in Cyber Defense 🔏

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security measure that adds an extra layer of protection to online accounts. It requires users to provide two forms of identification before accessing their accounts.

Typically, this involves something the user knows (like a password) and something they have (such as a smartphone app or a hardware token).

By requiring both factors, 2FA significantly reduces the risk of unauthorised access, even if a password is compromised

• Enhanced Security: 2FA significantly reduces the risk of unauthorised access by requiring two forms of identification. Even if a password is compromised, a second factor (like a text message or authentication app) is still needed, making it much harder for attackers to gain entry.

• Protection Against Phishing: 2FA helps protect against phishing attacks, where users may unknowingly reveal their passwords. With 2FA, even if a password is stolen, the attacker would still need the second authentication factor to access the account.

• Compliance and Trust: Many industries have regulatory requirements for data protection, and 2FA can help businesses meet these compliance standards. Additionally, implementing 2FA demonstrates a commitment to security, enhancing customer trust and confidence in the business’s practices.

It's a really simple practice that goes along way for your personal and your business online security. We should feel the same way about 2FA as we do about passwords, they are essential!

Protect your business assets today with this essential security step!

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Elevate Your Security: Why Cyber Essentials Plus is Essential for your business ✅

Our Avoira team can guide you through the certification process to ensure your digital assets are protected!

Cyber Essentials Plus certification requires organisations to meet a set of security standards. By achieving this certification, an organisation demonstrates its commitment to safeguarding its own and its clients’ data against common cyber threats.

What is Cyber Essentials Plus?

Cyber Essentials Plus is an advanced version of the Cyber Essentials certification, a UK government-backed cybersecurity certification scheme. While Cyber Essentials focuses on the fundamentals of cybersecurity, Cyber Essentials Plus takes the protection of sensitive data to a higher level. This certification assesses an organisation’s cybersecurity defences more rigorously, using both automated and manual testing.

As part of our Cyber essentials plus audit, we had to submit the following for audit, 16 PC’s, 5 Mobiles and 9 servers. We also have had the following cloud services audited, Cloud, Office 365, Mimecast and the Avoira website. It seems like a lot, but we know that this is key to being as safe and secure as possible for our employees and our customers.

The key objectives of Cyber Essentials Plus are to:

• Identify and address vulnerabilities in an organisation’s IT systems and networks.
• Protect against common cyber threats, such as malware, phishing, and hacking.
• Strengthen an organisation’s overall cybersecurity posture.

Cybersecurity is not an option; it’s a necessity for any organisation that relies on digital technologies. Cyber Essentials Plus certification provides a clear pathway for organisations to enhance their cybersecurity measures, reduce risks, and gain the trust of customers and partners.

It’s so important to be Cyber Essentials Plus certified as it gives other businesses the confidence to deal with your business as you have undergone the audit process.

Don’t hesitate, contact us today and we can help you get certified and ensure your cyber security is the best it can be.

Don't Pay the Price: Protecting Your Company Against Ransomware Attacks 💻

What is Ransomware?

Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that locks or encrypts the files on a computer or network, making them unusable. The attackers then demand a "ransom" (a payment) to unlock or decrypt the files. It’s like a digital hostage situation: they hold your data hostage until you pay up.

Here's a basic rundown:

1. Infection: The ransomware gets into your system, often through a phishing email, a fake download, or a vulnerable system.

2. Locking/Encryption: It locks access to important files or the whole system.

3. Ransom Demand: A message appears demanding payment (usually in cryptocurrency) to restore access.

4. Decision: Victims must choose whether to pay the ransom or try to recover their data by other means (like backups or cybersecurity help).

Why Ransomware should matter to you -

Recently, multiple large organisations have fallen victim to Ransomware attacks, despite having best-of-breed preventive-based solutions in place. These organisations relied on prevention and threat detection, but cybercriminals are continuously innovating new and unknown methods that can circumvent existing perimeter security.

Our innovative and proven offering, RansomCare from BullWall, is a vital Last Line of Defence technology that detects ransomware outbreaks in seconds, by monitoring the data activity of the organisation.

RansomCare investigates the heuristics of each file accessed by a user either on-premise or in the cloud. The application is agentless and creates no network performance overhead.

In our due diligence research and competitive evaluation of the BullWall solution we found that there was nothing else like it on the market that delivered such an effective last line of defence. So, it wasn’t a difficult decision to choose the RansomCare solution.

- Council in United Kingdom with 5,500 employees

RansomCare is the final defence needed to stop extremely costly cyber attacks and gives you peace of mind in a dangerous online world.

Click here to get in touch with us and learn more about RansomCare