8 security tips for small businesses

This document provides practical cybersecurity guidance for small businesses, recommending staff awareness training, asset inventory, timely patching with reference to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, strong authentication and password management, network defenses (firewalls, VPNs, segmentation), RDP hardening, endpoint protection, supply-chain due diligence, and recovery planning with backups and breach notification readiness. It emphasizes balancing alert fatigue with limited resources and considering outsourcing specialized tasks. The piece concludes with a promotion of Malwarebytes for Teams.