Ow!
So I was thinking, what if I managed to do
one two-minute video every week?
Hey everybody, it's Pete coming to you here
from Tekkers with Tekk Talk with what I hope to be
a bit of a weekly update on latest news.
Tech news, articles, tips, tricks, anything that
kinda comes into the techie world really.
This week, a good topic to start off with
is your favorite topic, it's IT security.
Really straightforward, we're gonna go through
the top twelve things that you need to make sure
you've covered all your bases.
So the first one is your antivirus.
You need desktop antivirus and you need server antivirus.
Make sure it's installed on absolutely everything
and make sure it's properly licensed.
Number two is your email security.
So that's your protection that stops the dodgy emails
coming into your email system,
stops it before it gets to your email inbox.
You don't wanna have to be in a situation where
you're trying to pick through your inbox and go oh
that's a dodgy one, that's a dodgy one, that's a dodgy one,
that I think is a bit of a dodgy one
or I'm not too sure about that one.
Number three is your web security.
It's some software that you put in place
to stop you accidentally clicking on dodgy links.
Email and web security both kinda go hand in hand
to make sure you've got the web protection in place really.
Number four is complex passwords.
So you need to make sure you have a complex password.
Don't have something like "password" or "my dog's name123".
And then following on from your passwords
really is two-factor authentication.
So that might be a random code that's texted to you
or maybe you fire up an app on your phone.
Similar to this one, on your mobile phone
where it gives you one code and it changes
on to the next code for the next time you login.
Number six is thinking about your physical security.
So you wanna think about where your servers are.
Whether located in your offices,
don't leave your laptops right next to a window
or an open door.
Number seven is your permissions.
So you might have your files and folders on the server.
You've got confidential files
like your HR files or your finance files.
You need to make sure your staff
only have access to what they need.
Number eight is something you can do
which is called centralising your data.
There are things from Microsoft, remote desktop services.
There's Citrix.
None of your data ever leaves your offices.
It stays in your server, in your own secure offices.
So anyone leaving the office with a laptop,
if they lose the laptop,
then all of the data is still protected.
You just go out, buy another laptop.
Following on from that is number nine,
which is encrypting your data.
So if you encrypt your data, then that data is still safe.
So you don't have to worry that someone
has run away with your machine.
Then you don't worry about it.
Again, you just buy another laptop.
Number ten is your updates.
So your Microsoft updates, your Windows updates,
your Adobe update.
Anything that updates, make sure you update it.
Don't do it straight away.
I wouldn't do it the day of or a couple of days after.
I'd maybe give it a week just to make sure
you've had time for the updates to bed in
and that any issues have been fixed.
You'd think they'd be well tested, but no, not really.
And then number eleven is just training your staff.
You can have all of these steps in place.
You can have your email filtering, your web filtering,
your physical security, your permissions, your encryption.
You can have everything in place,
yet still something slips through the net.
You still catch a virus, you still get a ransomware thing
that runs through your network
and tries to just wipe out your company.
If you train your staff well, a staff member
can just stop and think is that actually a dodgy email?
Number twelve, penultimate one, which is your backups.
You need to be able to recover the data.
So you need to restore from yesterday's backup.
You need to restore from maybe last week's backup.
So you need a backup where
you can restore to any point in time, at least recently.
I would suggest in the last year.
If you've got regular backups within the last year,
that's a fairly good backup process
just so you can get back up and running pretty quickly.
And then lastly, you can have all the software in place,
you can train your staff, but next week something
new could come out, something else could come out
that we haven't discussed in this video.
Something else could come out
that we haven't even thought of yet,
maybe some new, clever hack.
Then, brilliant.
You need someone there that can give you the advice,
the ongoing advice and take recommendations for really
when there are things like the email filtering
that you might not have in place.
There is your two-minute Tuesday.
Not quite two minutes.
I'm sure we'll try to improve that in the future weeks.
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