The Federation of Small Business is urging small businesses to take steps to protect themselves from the threat of cyber hacks, following the ransomware attack on the NHS earlier this month.
It warns cyber crime is one of the fastest growing risks to small businesses and one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. FBS figures show that, on average, a cyber crime incident costs a small business victim nearly £3,000 and takes 2.2 days to recover from. A staggering 7 million cyber crimes are committed against smaller businesses in the UK every year, that’s 19,000 every day.
The FSB are advising businesses to check immediately for updates to their operating systems and anti-malware software and download them where needed. Small firms should also make sure their system or critical data is backed up to a storage device that’s not within the same network - if the worst happens, data cannot then be held to ransom. They should also keep an eye on the National Cyber Security Centre website https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
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