Cybersecurity for SME

1. Cyber Security For
Small and Medium
Businesses

2. Trends During COVID
● Many business have moved online
● Work from home
● Online & Cyber Fraud has increased over
400%

3. Cloud Adoption
● Many companies moved from data center
to cloud
● Service like Office 365 and Gsuite

4. Business
Classification
➔ Without online presence
No Website or online transactions.
But has ERP, CRM, Accounting
package etc
➔ Online Presence
Online transactions using Website,
Payment Gateway

5. Issues in Companies without
Online Presence
● Ransomware, Malware
● Employees Leaking Data
● Employees locking out IT Systems when they
leave
● Hardware failure, data loss

6. How to Secure Companies without
Online Presence
● Genuine Operating Systems
● Genuine Anti Virus
● Disable USB
● Use Firewall, Secure Wifi access points
● Control applications installed
● Update applications and Operating Systems
● Audit IT Systems
● Provide Least Privilege
● Regular Backups, Isolate Backups
● Terminate Logins right after termination of Job

7. Issues in Companies with Online
Presence
● Issues on Website
○ Website hacked
○ Customer information breached online
○ Credit Card Fraud
○ Brand reputation issues

8. How to Secure Companies with
Online Presence
● Find a reliable service provider; if not get code
backups
● Security Test Website
● Change Defaults (eg. Wordpress defaults)
● Use web application firewalls and web protection
● Take backups of online database
● Multi Factor authentication
● SSL

9. Other IT Trends seen in Middle East
Moved to office
365 from
exchange server.
Moving to
Microsoft
ERP,Hubspot CRM
Moved from Orion
ERP to Web
based Custom
ERP to reduce
cost and improve
flexibility
Set Up an online
store from
scratch in 15 days
using opencart

10. Focus on What is best for
Business and Customers
Understand data in your business
Find what is sensitive data and how to
protect it
Use Analytics
Fail fast

11. Closing Thoughts
Digitize
Automate
Think of securing customer data