ENISA publishes Cybersecurity guide for SMEs, a document that aims at providing suggestions to secure their business
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of organizations increased their presence online, enlarging their surface of attacks. The surface of attack for SMEs was enlarged, many of them took business continuity measures, such as adopting cloud services, improving their internet services, upgrading their websites and enabling staff to work remotely.
ENISA published a guide to provide SMEs with practical 12 high-level recommendations on how to improve security of their infrastructure and their business.
Below the list of recommendations provided by the European Agency:
- DEVELOP GOOD CYBERSECURITY CULTURE;
- PROVIDE APPROPRIATE TRAINING;
- ENSURE EFFECTIVE THIRD PARTY MANAGEMENT;
- DEVELOP AN INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN;
- SECURE ACCESS TO SYSTEMS;
- SECURE DEVICES;
- SECURE YOUR NETWORK;
- IMPROVE PHYSICAL SECURITY;
- SECURE BACKUPS;
- ENGAGE WITH THE CLOUD;
- SECURE ONLINE SITES;
- SEEK AND SHARE INFORMATION.
The report published by the ENISA is available here;
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Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at “Cyber Defense Magazine”, Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog “Security Affairs” recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the “The Hacker News” team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books “The Deep Dark Web” and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.
ENISA publishes Cybersecurity guide for SMEs, a document that aims at providing suggestions to secure their business
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of organizations increased their presence online, enlarging their surface of attacks. The surface of attack for SMEs was enlarged, many of them took business continuity measures, such as adopting cloud services, improving their internet services, upgrading their websites and enabling staff to work remotely.
ENISA published a guide to provide SMEs with practical 12 high-level recommendations on how to improve security of their infrastructure and their business.
Below the list of recommendations provided by the European Agency:
- DEVELOP GOOD CYBERSECURITY CULTURE;
- PROVIDE APPROPRIATE TRAINING;
- ENSURE EFFECTIVE THIRD PARTY MANAGEMENT;
- DEVELOP AN INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN;
- SECURE ACCESS TO SYSTEMS;
- SECURE DEVICES;
- SECURE YOUR NETWORK;
- IMPROVE PHYSICAL SECURITY;
- SECURE BACKUPS;
- ENGAGE WITH THE CLOUD;
- SECURE ONLINE SITES;
- SEEK AND SHARE INFORMATION.
The report published by the ENISA is available here;
Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, ENISA)
Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, SME)