Even though Cyber Security Awareness Month is over, you shouldn’t let your online safety fall by the wayside.
This month’s newsletter covers incident response plans, new malware protection features, and password managers.
First, thank you for your feedback on the last newsletter. Your comments help us focus on the topics that matter to you, so please let me know if you have any suggestions for future newsletters.
Now, onto what we’ve been up to this month to help keep your business cyber secure.
Evasion Shield
We’ve implemented a new feature in your antivirus called Evasion Shield which will help protect your devices from Malware and malicious scripts going forward.
As well as looking for new features, we regularly review the health of your anti-virus software/hardware to ensure it’s working properly. It’s important to us that you benefit from these new features as soon as they’re available and are thoroughly tested.
Password Managers
Keeping your passwords safe is still a challenge for businesses. We recently spoke with our partners at Keeper Security about how we’ve overcome those challenges with a password manager at Impact.
Let’s talk about Incident response plans:
Last year, cybercriminals attacked over 1.5 million UK businesses, costing more than £31bn. It’s widely accepted that every business will be the target of a cyber-attack at some point in the future, so it’s vital to be prepared.
So how does an Incident Response Plan help?
Incident response plans are designed to minimise the damage, costs, downtime, and reputation damage associated with security breaches, and to help you recover as quickly as possible. The purpose of an incident response plan is to minimise the damage, cost, downtime and reputation damage associated with a security breach, and to help you recover as quickly as possible.
We now live in a compliance driven world – Customers, suppliers, and partners expect you to take cyber security seriously. Having an incident response plan could give you a competitive advantage and mean you are more likely to win work, particularly if you work in the public sector with cyber security regulations.
An incident response plan could also lower your cyber insurance premium if you have one.
Take a look at our Incident Response Plan template here.
What does an Incident Response Plan include?
Every business is different, and an incident response plan should be tailored to the risks you face. Incident response plans usually contain information like:
- Your crown jewels (i.e., your most sensitive data and most important business processes)
- Key responsibilities – Who is responsible for what and who will lead the investigation.
- Key decision Makers – Those who are responsible for authorising costs, seeking outside help and approving customer communications.
- Key contact information – Such as internal staff phone numbers, technical assistance contact information, legal advice contacts, or insurance contact information.
- Communication strategy and templates – This incudes pre-prepared statements and templates to use when appropriate.
Please get in touch if you have any questions. You can access a template here to give you a head start on an incident response plan.
In the meantime, check out our recent video on these updates with Client Security Lead, Ash Farr.