Cybersecurity: What Small Businesses Need to Know

Bonus Episode: It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate it than with a cybersecurity episode of THRIVE. Listen in as Gene Marks talks with Kristin Harper, Manager of Operations Security at Paychex about what small businesses need to know about the different types of cyber-attacks, the importance of user education, and what you and your employees can do to protect yourselves.

Topics Include:

00:19 – Meet Kristin Harper
00:58 – Kristin’s job as Manager of Operations Security
02:49 – Cybersecurity in small business
04:39 – User education to prevent cyber crime
06:05 – What is phishing?
06:57 – Smishing: SMS phishing
09:54 – The rise of social engineering
10:46 – The impact of malware
11:59 – What to do to lower the risk of an attack
14:06 – Cybersecurity and remote employees
15:36 – Securing your home network and your software
17:38 – Should you be using security software?
19:30 – Cyber insurance

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