Tackling Cybercrime

The Business Owners’ Guide
To Tackling Cybercrime

by Chris Ward, Technical Director, Vermont Systems Ltd

I meet business owners every day who ask:
"How do I know if my business is secure?"

We see the same 3 common mistakes, so it is fairly quick to figure it out. These are CRITICAL road-blocks to making businesses safe.

  1. You think: I’m OK, my antivirus software will protect me!
    Relying on traditional Antivirus is like turning up to work with the SAS in a suit of armour. It was invented for a world that doesn’t exist anymore. Modern Antivirus is only effective as part of a “Defence in Depth” strategy.
  2. Are your staff woe-fully unprepared to defend themselves?
    Do they realise that they are being targeted by overseas, organised crime? Do they know the tell-tale signs that give away a fraudster? Do they understand that using the same password everywhere will end up with their online identify hijacked – and possibly your businesses too?
  3. Relying on your IT guy to guard the gate
    Cyber crime is an IT problem right? So you let your IT support people deal with it. But here’s the problem: IT Support has got nothing to do with cyber crime prevention. Support is aligned to fixing problems. When you have a cyber crime problem, it’s too late.

So what do you do? As the Information Commission recently stated, "Cyber crime is a board level problem".

For Further Details on What Business Owners Need To Know About Cyber Crime And How To Prevent It Crippling Your Business Download and Read This Guide. You’ll Discover:

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  • The HUGE amounts of money cyber criminals are making by targeting SME businesses just like yours.
  • What law enforcement are doing about it ... and more importantly what they are NOT doing about it.
  • Why delegating responsibility for cyber crime prevention to your IT people is a BIG mistake.
  • The #1 thing I can practically GUARANTEE you are not doing which leaves you wide open to attack.
  • Why relying on antivirus to keep you safe will end in tears.

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You Can Also Book Your FREE IT Assessment Which Will Reveal The Truth About Your Current IT Set-up and Disaster Recovery System

I’d like to offer you a free, no-obligation, no-sales pressure IT Assessment, where myself and one of my senior technicians will come to your office to conduct an audit of your current disaster recovery system as well as your network’s security and overall health.

When done, we’ll give you a comprehensive report of our findings that will not only reveal if your data and computer network really is properly backed up and secured, but also if there is anything you need to do now to prevent a major network outage, data loss, hacker attack or other expensive, data-erasing disaster.

What To Do Next

To schedule your Free IT Assessment, please call my office on 023 8098 3405 or email chrismward@vermont.co.uk. The Assessment only takes 60 minutes to conduct, and when done, you’ll know for sure if your company’s data is secured and exactly how fast you could be back up and running again in the event of a disaster (or if at all).

Working with Vermont has been a pleasure

Client Testimonial 01

Working with Vermont has been a pleasure. They are easy people to deal with: honest and open and always keen to help. Those qualities are also evident in their straightforward and reasonable pricing: for less than the cost of a part-time employee we get full-time access to a whole team of IT support experts.

This allows our internal employees to focus on specific business needs rather than IT infrastructure, and also gives us access to broader IT expertise we don’t necessarily have in-house. So, overall we now get more for our money, have a more reliable system and staff who are more able to focus on their ‘real jobs’ than we did when we managed our IT in-house. And when we’ve asked Vermont to do extra projects they’ve been clear up-front about the costs involved: no surprises or hidden extras.

We’re happy to recommend them.

Jonny Wray,
Head of Discovery Informatics,
e-Therapeutics plc

Vermont allow me to focus more on i2O’s core business

Client Testimonial 02

The Vermont team are very knowledgeable and extremely professional and from day one did a great job of bringing us on board as a customer of theirs. They are competitive in their pricing and were very flexible and understanding in our needs and requirements. Since we have become a customer of Vermont we have been looked after extremely well by both the commercial and technical teams. They do not hesitate to exceed my expectations in their turnaround time, especially if it is an urgent issue.

I can honestly say that my objective of having this aspect of my role handled by someone else to allow me to focus more on i2O’s core business has more than been met. Our internal users are happier now than before we hired Vermont and they feel safe in the knowledge that there is a whole team of people whom they can turn to if required, rather than one or two internal people - which would be a luxury we could not afford. All in all, I would recommend Vermont Systems to anyone looking for IT management and support.

Mike Williams,
Software & IT Director,
i2O Water