Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Piedmont SCORE, a business management consultant based in Greenville, has assembled a list of cybersecurity precautions for local businesses:
- Check for unusual activity or performance issues on your devices and networks
- Plan to incorporate regular data backups
- Test a recent backup to make sure it works
- Check antivirus and all software for needed updates and patches
- Use a password manager with complex pass phrases, including more than 16 characters with random numbers, letters, and symbols
- Use multifactor authentication
- Turn on or incorporate virtual private networks (VPN) when online
For more information on cybersecurity, visit cisa.gov/shields-up, scsbdc.com/cyber and americassbdc.org/cybersecurity/resources.
