With industrialization and globalization, a new type of industry known as the small business has emerged. It has a limited capital starting at 5 crores. With the rise of IT infrastructure, many small-scale industries have also started using websites and blogs to promote their businesses. But as we all know, there are two sides to every coin, the same goes for IT usage and network banking.
Hackers are the people who break into the system and steal and sell an organization’s personal and confidential information to its competitors. They always look for small organizations or micro-enterprises as they do not have a high level of security and it is also very easy to hack into their systems.
These are the following sources available to hackers:
The website or blog
With the advancement of technology, small and micro businesses have blogs and websites to display their information. This website is connected through a server on the main motherboard with all the information that is confidential to the business. Hackers tend to target the website or blog and reach the motherboard to get the information of the transactions and daily transactions of a company.
Mobile phones or tablets
Since the scale of the business is small and micro, daily transactions can be done through mobile or network banking. Since we are all careless about the security of our phones, this gives hackers the opportunity to break into our phones and tablets to hack information about the transaction and sometimes steal important banking information and dump the entire amount.
Emails
Emails are another source for system information. Hackers or spammers can send emails with ads or links that, once clicked, can deliver viruses to the system, helping the hackers to steal the information.
Every problem has a remedy, just like this one. Here are some ways we can protect our confidential information from being stolen.
passwords
Setting passwords on servers and Wi-Fi can be a proven way to protect outsiders from breaking into your system and decrypting your information.
encryption
It is a process of encoding a message in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those without the authority cannot see or read it. Helps keep information between trusted people.
Updating
Frequent software updates allow us to keep hackers out, as they need time to figure out how to crack an update to keep our information safe and secure.
Security questions and creative answers
We should find unique and different answers for security questions asked by security. The basic and general answers are one guess away.
Do not link accounts
Linking the website with the bank account to facilitate transactions is a bad idea, as when hackers hack the website, they also gain access to the bank accounts.
Therefore, the small business can adopt these means to protect their data from hackers.