Cyber Risks

If you own your own business, you’ve undoubtedly opened a Facebook page in its name as part of your marketing strategy. You may even have delved into Twitter, or staked its place on LinkedIn.

Cyber is increasingly becoming a key risk. As businesses and industries like yours continue to shift towards digitalisation we’re here to share insights and guidance to help you protect your business against cyber-attacks. 

In 2018, more major hacks took place from huge companies, including HSBC, British Airways and Facebook. In the first half of the year alone, it’s thought that around 4.5 million records were stolen.

Gone are the days when the term phishing was associated with a leisurely Sunday afternoon activity and trees were the only victims of hacking.

Marketing and advertising your brand can help to get your story out there, attract new clients and increase sales. However, sometimes an advert or campaign can get you noticed for all the wrong reasons.

The Mail on Sunday has reported a cyber-attack on exclusive jewellery firm Graff. Cyber criminals are alleged to have leaked up to 69,000 confidential documents, including private details of David Beckham, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey and Sir Philip Green.

For over a year, we’ve seen great success from the UK’s en-masse migration to remote working where roles were able to be performed at home.

Do you know your GIFs from your Gigabytes? To you, does RAM still bring up connotations of a sheep rather than computer memory? If you’re not up to date with technological lingo, you’re not alone.

Despite routers becoming increasingly easy to use and configure, most people don’t amend the settings of their router having set their Wi-Fi name and password. Yet without updating your router and security settings, you could be leaving your router open to cybercriminals and malware.

There’s no hiding from paperwork.

Whether it’s for your personal life in the form of mortgage, tenancy or car agreements, utility bills and payslips, or for business admin, paperwork gets everywhere.

People have drawers of the stuff. Some people even have entire cabinets for it.