Tips and tricks to protect the data for small business owners.

2. Guarding your Data
Erick Solms

3. Are these familiar?
• Hurricanes
• Floods
• Power Outages
• Tornadoes
• Ransomware
• Fires
• Mechanical Failures

4. Questions
• Question 1 – In any given year, how
many businesses will experience a
disruption lasting more than a day?
• Question 2 –How many businesses
will not re-open following a disaster?
• Question 3 – If you cannot get your
business back online within 5 days
of a disruption, what are the odds
that your business will survive?

5. Training
• Prepare your front line of defense:
Employees.
• Provide regular and mandatory
cybersecurity training.
• What’s the best way to start? Let’s
attack them!
• Tip: Let them come up to you if they
clicked the wrong link!

6. Synchronized Simple Security
• Simple, integrated solutions to
protect your data and systems in
one centralized manner.
• Antivirus Protection
• Password Management Systems
• Software protection for Ransomware
• Tip: Your best insurance policy to
protect your data is the tools you
use.

7. Hard Disks on Computers
• #@$@#!dsafd#@$$@ds
• Millions of laptops are misplaced,
stolen or lost. Protect your data!
• Built-in on MACs
• Available on Windows Business
Machines
• Tip: Be careful on locking yourself
up and do not buy Windows Home
machines.

8. Mobile Devices
• Everyone runs part of their personal lives or
certain aspects of their business through a
mobile device.
• Use the built-in features from Android and
Apple.
• Do not use a simple password as that will
unencrypt your phone and make it
accessible.
• Have a tool to remotely wipe the phone.
• Tip: Have a Bring your Own Device Policy if
your employees access their email on their
phones

9. Public Wireless Networks
• Let’s check our email while we are having
lunch at Panera? Use a VPN Service.
• Browser data becomes invisible
• Hide your IP Address
• Highly Secured Encryption
• No logging on your activity
• Tip: Be careful on Xfinity Networks being
actually the Xfinity Network and not a trap.

10. Protect your Network
• Patio Door or Steel Door
• Intrusion Prevention
• Spam Control
• Let’s create an internet culture and
save bandwidth
• VPN
• Tip: Do not ever leave Remote Desktop
Desktop Connection open to the world.
world. Lock it down!

11. Backing up your Data
• Backups is not business continuity
• Backups are not measured on
storage or speed, they are
measured on Time to Restore.
• Tip: Perform restores at least bi-
annually. However, perform all
restores needed until you get one
right.

12. Ransomware – Pay the ransom!
• Never ever reformat your machine,
unless you are sure your backups are
working 100%.
• Your business should have an account
setup for Bitcoins ready to go.
• Tip: You might have to pay the ransom
to return to operations!

13. How about my personal info?
• Everyone worries about the credit.
• Identity theft affects more than the
credit. It affects your social security,
medical history, drivers license, email
addresses, bank account numbers,
passport numbers, social media and
even court records.
• Tip: Use a service that not only
monitors, but will help you resolve your
issues as part of their service.

14. End to End Protection :
• Secure the perimeter
• Secure the web
• Secure the email
• Secure the wireless
• Security Awareness Training
• Secure the Endpoint
• Secure the Mobile Device
• Secure the Servers
• PROTECT THE DATA

15. Thank you!
Final Tip: Email or Call for a
Complimentary Assessment
Erick Solms
esolms@simplitfy.com
561-425-6101
www.simplitfy.com