10 Tips to Protect Your Organization Against Common Cyber Attacks

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Here are 10 actionable tips that you can use to improve the overall cyber security posture of your organization, and also to protect against some of the most common attacks out there.

1. Train your employees about security awareness. Humans represent the weakest links that attackers take advantage of, that’s why Phishing is one of the most popular delivery methods of malware and ransomware.
2. Watch out for weak, default, or compromised passwords. If you haven’t done yet, you should enforce password policies for all the systems within your organization, which includes complexity and reusage checks. As soon as you deploy new technology, software, or device, you must immediately change its default password according to the defined policy. Also, you can check for compromised passwords here.
3. Limit the exposure of sensitive protocols. Before opening a port to the Internet, ask yourself: Is it really necessary to do so? If yes, ensure that only the allowed personnel will be able to access it, by creating proper protection mechanisms, for example, Firewall rules, Access Control Lists, and VPN tunnels. Some examples of network protocols and services considered sensitive and dangerous to be exposed are Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Database Logins (MySQL, MariaDB, and so on), Simple Network…