Small Business Week Events: 5 Tips To Make Your Business Unhackable

Time to celebrate Small Business Week, it's Here!  It kicked off last night with a kick-off event that we missed.  But with no further ado, we caught the Cybersecurity Panel Discussion today.  "What does this have to do with sewing?!"  you may be asking yourself.  Since we started our journey of developing our business, and you're coming along for the ride, we thought it best to share the information we find helpful in starting a business.  If you're starting a sewing business or any other online small business, as we are, cyber security is always of utmost importance.

Here are a few take aways that we learned from the discussion to help make your business unhackable:

1. Have security policies and employee training in place.
2. Get mobile apps to bypass username and password protocols.
3. Ask for 2 factor authentication from service providers.
4. Consider inbound email filters/encryption.
5. Get an expert instead of building yourself.

The panel suggests that if you are ever hacked, and have no pre-existing relationships with security enforcers, notify law enforcement.  The Small Business Administration provides tools and checklists you can use to get your security plan started at sba.gov/cybersecurity.  We'll be getting started with our plan soon, will you?