What is cybersecurity?

Simply put, cybersecurity protects everything companies (large and small) and individuals require to prevent hackers from gaining access to the information and possibly disrupting their business operations. Cybersecurity includes people (you, your users, and your suppliers), processes (things you need to do, things you and your users shouldn’t do), and technology (tools to protect your users and systems, tools to identify potential or actual security issues, and to alert, track, and record what’s happening and help you respond if a security incident does occur). Good cybersecurity hygiene helps ensure your company is proactively ready to deal with an incident, rather than reactively responding to an incident without any type of game plan or response capabilities already in place. It’s the door that you always lock, the alarm you always turn on at the end of the day, the camera system that’s always watching. Proactive activities help prevent an incident from happening in the first case and provide you with accurate and instant information if it does.