In today’s digitized society, cyber attacks are a growing threat to all businesses, regardless of size or industry. Failure to have adequate security measures in place can lead to serious consequences, including financial losses, damaged reputation, business disruptions and legal penalties. Cyber security is something that the entire business needs to work on and includes both technical and human factors. Therefore, it is important that cyber security is prioritized at management level in order to have a good effect throughout the entire business.
Why Invest in Cyber Security
First of all, protect your business from cyber-attacks. These are costly, disrupt your business, can cause reputational damage and even put you out of business.
Secondly, you wish to build trust with customers and partners – or simply stay a trusted partner.
How to Get Started
If you do not work with cyber security today, a good first step is to carry out a needs analysis. If you are unsure of how, you can get help from us, Ideon, Sweden Secure Tech Hub.
Other things you can start doing already today is to:
- Assess risks: Identify and analyze critical assets and potential threats. Which parts are most critical to fix?
- Make security updates and make sure your employees do too. Install updates immediately to reduce vulnerabilities. Do you build your own software solution? Make sure to build safely from the start, it saves both money and time in the long term.
- Make sure you have strong authentication: Use multi-factor authentication and strictly manage permissions. Use secure passwords, do not use the same password in several places and change these at regular intervals.
- Start training yourself and your employees: Educate all employees regularly about cyber security and behaviors that may pose a risk. One way of doing that is to carry out simulations. What steps would you take if a hacker broke in?
- Monitor: Make sure to regularly monitor using monitoring tools. If you don’t have one, implement one. See to that you have an incident management plan in place. Do you have a backup?
- Do prioritize but make sure to get started with your work. Anyone can suffer a cyber-attack.
What and Who is Sweden Secure Tech Hub?
Sweden Secure Tech Hub is a national innovation hub for cyber security in a collaboration between six of Sweden’s leading science parks in technology and digitization.
We help small and medium-sized technology companies (SME/SMF) create more secure digital products and solutions – starting already in the design and development phase.
We offer a variety of resources and services, from inspiration and skills development to consulting support, needs analyses, training, testing opportunities, and help companies find financing for concrete development efforts.
Much of what we offer is completely free for your business.
Follow Sweden Secure Tech Hubs LinkedIn page to receive tips and information about upcoming events or activities that may be of interest to you and keep an eye at Ideon’s events page as well.
The Sweden Secure Tech Hub is part of the Sweden ICT ERUF project which is financed by:
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In each region, there are business development checks or equivalent business support for small and medium-sized companies. More information
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Sweden Secure Tech Hub offers several services free of charge. Feel free to reach out to Liza Johansson to learn more.
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MSB, The Swedish Agency for Community Protection and Preparedness.
National Cyber Security Center.
The security check. [säkerhetskollen]
