David FriedlandJust because a business is small doesn’t mean cyber attacks are any less of a threat. While big name brands have plenty of resources to protect themselves, small businesses are frequently targeted due to their less sophisticated protection.
Thankfully, new options on the market have focused on smaller business use cases. These software packages have been extensively tested and offer flexible plans that can keep up with a growing business. There’s nothing like sleeping knowing your data is protected – and these software solutions are perfect for a smaller business looking to safeguard itself from attackers.
Anura Solutions
This product was recommended by Beth Kahn from Anura Solutions LLC
Anura is 15 year mature ad fraud solution that reduces fraud and creates a meaningful lift in campaign ROI. Businesses are all negatively impacted by ad fraud to the tune of $42 Billion a year. By effectively reducing ad fraud you will realized an increase in campaign performance, which will help you grow your company faster.
Norton 360 Standard
This product was recommended by Norhanie Pangulima from Centriq
Norton 360 Standard is an ideal choice for anyone who has a small business and wants to secure a single PC, Mac, or mobile device from viruses, ransomware, and malware. For small businesses such as a sole trader or freelancer, it’s got things covered perfectly, saving you from having to pay extra for unnecessarily features. When you go online, the software will keep your financial and private information protected from the prying eyes of hackers. In fact, Norton is so sure that its service works that if a Norton expert can’t keep your device free from malware and other threats, you’ll get a free refund.
McAfee Total Protection
This product was recommended by Norhanie Pangulima from Centriq
McAfee Total Protection is an extremely popular security solution tool for small businesses and for good reason. It has the best price to offer and covers all the basics of what you would want from a security suite, such as antivirus protection, a built-in firewall, and password manager features. McAfee keeps an eye on anything that looks suspicious. If you want to stop zero-day malware or malicious software that hasn’t yet been patched, you can contain it by blocking certain types of behaviors common in malware. And it works across all platforms including Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.
Permido
This product was recommended by Darcy Cudmore from Darcy Allan PR
Permido is an Outlook add-in and a web portal that can work with other popular email providers, solving two problems in one click: *GDPR* compliance and *Email Security*. Permido offers an end-to-end encryption solution and is relevant for anyone working with confidential or sensitive information, including HR, lawyers, healthcare, the public sectors, and the like.
Symantec Endpoint Security
This product was recommended by Anh Trinh from GeekWithLaptop
Symantec Endpoint Protection is a simple yet elegant software that offers maximum protection from malware, malicious attacks, and other threats to your system. What’s great about it is that it doesn’t require tons of resources to run allowing it to scan your computer seamlessly without slowing it down. It also provides impressive monitoring of the security of your network as well as giving you real-time updates on possible threats to your system.
PPC Protect
This product was recommended by Neil Andrew from PPC Protect
Most small businesses run some form of online paid advertising, for example Google Ads. However what they don’t realise is that up to 30% of that paid advertising spend is routinely lost to varying forms of advertising fraud. From simple things like competitors clicking on ads, up to sophisticated botnet attacks, the losses can be significant. PPC Protect allows small businesses to protect themselves against this risk easily with a simple plug and play protection solution.
Ouriken
This product was recommended by Kenny Trinh from Netbooknews
Ouriken transforms your cyber-security operations to effectively and efficiently detect and respond to the evolving threat landscape. Ouriken uses proven processes along with the innovative capabilities to manage operational security and data protection programs. These ensure the security of your critical information and assets. Ouriken fuse data and information using analytics, automation, and machine intelligence to root out and beat back threats at machine speed, with customized delivery approaches. The advanced hunt, red teaming and incident response services that Ouriken offer, make sure that your IT enterprise and operational infrastructure are cyber-resilient.
KnowBe4
This product was recommended by Kelly Speers from Your IT Results Inc.
KnowBe4 Dark web credential monitoring Security awareness training by Kevin Mitnick a world renowned cybersecurity expert and hacker and Email phishing so your team is aware of what not to fall for. The above is critical to any small business because employees are the link into any organization that hackers are targeting. By know if and when your credentials are for sale on the Dark web you can change passwords and limit your exposure to hackers. With constant vigilant training of your staff in the latest security awareness and phishing you are arming your team to know what to look out for.
We can not expect our clients staff to know about security if we do not train them. Privately we use what is called Channel only software for this so that we receive and manage the alerts and training. Our solution is called Dark Web ID and BullPhish ID, these tools monitor our client’s information on the Dark Web if it is available and as new information becomes available. We are able to setup phishing campaigns and training for each of our clients to help them be aware of how attacks happen.
