Is your business prepared in the event of a disaster?
Having an IT Disaster Recovery Plan should be business-critical, yet 39% of SMEs do not have any kind of incident response plan in place (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2022/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2022).
When you consider that more than half of SME’s that experience a cyber attack won’t survive the next 6 months, this highlights how important robust cybersecurity and an effective Disaster Recovery Plan is.
Cyber risks are the highest risk factor to businesses, but you can mitigate these with effective Cyber Risk Management.
What can you do?
Cyber security can be a scary subject, but there is plenty that can be done to prevent and prepare.
Here are some steps you can take to help you prepare in the event of a breach:
Identify Weaknesses: conduct an audit to identify any vulnerabilities in your company’s systems and processes. Understand where potential risks lie and then take action to reduce these risks, analyse potential threats, and the impacts these have on digital assets, including information technology infrastructure, networks, and data.
Assess Risks: Evaluate the likelihood and potential impact of each threat and prioritise these risks based on these findings.
Sensitive Data: Determine which data is most critical to your business. Protecting this information should be a priority.
Mitigate: Implement security measures to protect information systems from cyberattacks, employee negligence, and other digital and physical threats.
Crisis Management Plan: Develop a crisis management plan specifically for cyber incidents. This plan should outline roles, responsibilities, and limits for handling such events.
Incident Response: Prepare for incidents by having a clear process in place. This includes identifying what’s happening, resolving the incident, reporting it to stakeholders, and learning from it.
Remember that cyber risk management is an ongoing, iterative process, allowing companies to adapt to new developments in the threat landscape and their own IT systems.
If you need any help with your cyber risk management or disaster recovery planning, we would be happy to help.
We also have our own local data centre in Colchester, Essex, where we can replicate your servers at a fraction of the cost of traditional IT disaster recovery solutions and DR systems.