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Three ways small least one letter, including one capital letter and one lowercase letter, at least
one number and at least one symbol and punctuation mark" to be sufficiently
businesses can secure.
2. Train your employees
avoid being hacked One essential thing small businesses can do to prevent cyber-security breaches
is to effectively train their employees. Company executives must work with
Scott Nelson senior management to grant employees access to data on an "as needed" basis to
ProPay Inc. ensure secure, sensitive data doesn't fall into incompetent hands. Additionally,
companies should keep records of who has access to what information. Finally,
.S. corporations have management should teach employees how to use strong passwords, as well as
experienced a slew of deter and report spam.
cyber-security breaches 3. Stay current on security best practices
U in recent years. Home
Depot Inc., Target Corp., Sony Corp. To ensure that security breaches are sufficiently avoided, small business
and more have had company and owners and executives should endeavor to keep up to date on cyber-security
personal data thrown into the open threats and prevention tactics. Reading regularly about security software
by computer hackers. The costs in updates, new ways hackers are exploiting computing networks and how best
every case have been substantial. to implement company-wide trainings will be incredibly beneficial to your
Fortune 500 companies and other organization. Staying up to date on security best practices will ensure that your
large enterprises, however, are not company continues to operate smoothly – and that you earn your customers'
the only organizations susceptible trust by protecting them as they deserve.
to vicious cyber-attacks. Small busi- Scott Nelson has more than 29 years of professional product marketing and executive manage-
nesses, too, must invest the necessary
time and resources to protect their ment experience in the high-tech industry. For the past six years, he has worked for ProPay Inc., a
organizational data and retain their TSYS company, helping small businesses grow through online payment acceptance. Scott earned
customers' trust. dual bachelor's degrees from Brigham Young University in marketing and finance. He also earned
an MBA degree from Colorado State University. Contact him at scottnelsonpropay@gmail.com.
Here are three things every small
business can do to avoid cyber-secu-
rity breaches.
1. Develop strong,
secure passwords
Even in 2015, it is not uncommon for
small businesses and their employees
to use passwords that are easy to re-
member, or that are replicated for nu-
merous accounts, to protect sensitive
organizational and customer data.
However, business owners must con-
sider the security ramifications this
can have for their businesses. Skilled
hackers have a much better chance of
accessing vital information through a
password that is very easy to remem-
ber and replicated across multiple
channels or accounts.
Instead, businesses should develop
strong, secure passwords using char-
acter combinations that are unique to
each site, file or account that you log
into. Lisa Kahn Grossman, Associate
Principal in the Entrepreneurial Ser-
vices department at Kaufman Rossin
P.A., recommended in a Nov. 20, 2014,
article published by The Business Jour-
nals that your passwords "contain at
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Three ways small least one letter, including one capital letter and one lowercase letter, at least
one number and at least one symbol and punctuation mark" to be sufficiently
businesses can secure.
2. Train your employees
avoid being hacked One essential thing small businesses can do to prevent cyber-security breaches
is to effectively train their employees. Company executives must work with
Scott Nelson senior management to grant employees access to data on an "as needed" basis to
ProPay Inc. ensure secure, sensitive data doesn't fall into incompetent hands. Additionally,
companies should keep records of who has access to what information. Finally,
.S. corporations have management should teach employees how to use strong passwords, as well as
experienced a slew of deter and report spam.
cyber-security breaches 3. Stay current on security best practices
U in recent years. Home
Depot Inc., Target Corp., Sony Corp. To ensure that security breaches are sufficiently avoided, small business
and more have had company and owners and executives should endeavor to keep up to date on cyber-security
personal data thrown into the open threats and prevention tactics. Reading regularly about security software
by computer hackers. The costs in updates, new ways hackers are exploiting computing networks and how best
every case have been substantial. to implement company-wide trainings will be incredibly beneficial to your
Fortune 500 companies and other organization. Staying up to date on security best practices will ensure that your
large enterprises, however, are not company continues to operate smoothly – and that you earn your customers'
the only organizations susceptible trust by protecting them as they deserve.
to vicious cyber-attacks. Small busi- Scott Nelson has more than 29 years of professional product marketing and executive manage-
nesses, too, must invest the necessary
time and resources to protect their ment experience in the high-tech industry. For the past six years, he has worked for ProPay Inc., a
organizational data and retain their TSYS company, helping small businesses grow through online payment acceptance. Scott earned
customers' trust. dual bachelor's degrees from Brigham Young University in marketing and finance. He also earned
an MBA degree from Colorado State University. Contact him at scottnelsonpropay@gmail.com.
Here are three things every small
business can do to avoid cyber-secu-
rity breaches.
1. Develop strong,
secure passwords
Even in 2015, it is not uncommon for
small businesses and their employees
to use passwords that are easy to re-
member, or that are replicated for nu-
merous accounts, to protect sensitive
organizational and customer data.
However, business owners must con-
sider the security ramifications this
can have for their businesses. Skilled
hackers have a much better chance of
accessing vital information through a
password that is very easy to remem-
ber and replicated across multiple
channels or accounts.
Instead, businesses should develop
strong, secure passwords using char-
acter combinations that are unique to
each site, file or account that you log
into. Lisa Kahn Grossman, Associate
Principal in the Entrepreneurial Ser-
vices department at Kaufman Rossin
P.A., recommended in a Nov. 20, 2014,
article published by The Business Jour-
nals that your passwords "contain at
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