When starting or updating a business today, the owner or stakeholder should be including a major important addition. This addition is a cybersecurity plan. The plan could be a total build with inside hired employees or to hire a service to provide the protection your company needs. The need is now more than ever important for all businesses big and small. Of course there are cost related to this need for security of your network or website. The cost will be tied into your IT budget, or it could be your only line of cost for IT. Most believe that it should be about a quarter of the IT budget. This could be cost related to hiring and employing a professional to install and monitor the protection system. This will incur other related employee cost, depending on what benefits if at all the company offers it’s employees. The other way is to hire out the need to a second party company to do what is needed for your business. This will incur extra time and possibly cost. The time for the company to get quotes and negotiate the contract for the work. The business either way it chooses to handle the job, needs to get the job done. The costs of not are worse and even company ending if an attack is carried out. The company will and could lose the trust of paying customers, business partners, and the actual loss of direct moneys related to the attack.

Now everyone can work hard to keep their own personal computers safe from attack, some of these can and are used to protect businesses from attack just on a larger scale. First, easy one is to test your settings of you “os” most computers have a built in or easy to download program to run the setting to make sure you don’t have any major problems or security holes. This will lead into another is a always make sure you update all security patches released by your operating systems maker. Use of a firewall will help keep your computer safe while surfing the web. If you could also have your web router protected by passwords to make it harder for someone to get on your network.