Employee Training

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Oct 29, 2024 | General, Small Business Cybersecurity, Training

Training employees in cybersecurity best practices is crucial for any organization, especially as the threat landscape continues to evolve. In this blog post, we’ll offer actionable considerations on three vital pieces of Employee Training: Effective Ways to Train...

Incident Response and Backup Testing

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Jul 31, 2024 | General, Incident Response, Small Business Cybersecurity

Small business owners rarely find themselves with nothing to do. Instead, they prioritize productive tasks and constantly address urgent issues.  As a result, incident response planning and backup testing can easily be neglected unless they are intentionally scheduled...

Network Hardening– through the lens of small business operations

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Jun 12, 2024 | General, Small Business Cybersecurity

Small businesses are easy targets with lots of low-hanging fruit in the eyes of nefarious actors. In resource-constrained environments, many small business environments contain networks that have been around for years, with no significant budget dollars invested to...

How to Optimize Your Access Management, Zero Trust, and Allow-Listing Strategy

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Apr 29, 2024 | Small Business Cybersecurity

Through the lens of a small business operations team. It is common for one person to take on many roles in a small business environment.  So, how does a small business mitigate risk that comes with the challenge of a separation of duties and managing access to key...

Security Documentation is Essential for GRC and Assessment Preparation

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Apr 3, 2024 | Small Business Cybersecurity

Prioritizing Policy Documentation as a Critical Component for Implementation and Audit Preparation Policy documentation is a hot topic in the Defense Industry Base (DIB) and is found in many small businesses to be a challenge if it has not already been made a...

Making Critical ERP and CRM Decisions within the DIB

by Elizabeth Jimenez | Mar 6, 2024 | Small Business Cybersecurity

How Small Business Defense Contractors Should Choose and Protect Their Critical Applications A business’ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can either facilitate or constrain business operations workflow.  A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system can...