{"id":14711,"date":"2024-05-24T13:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:48:43","slug":"3-tips-for-preventing-and-reacting-to-cyber-attacks-on-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/blog\/3-consejos-para-prevenir-y-reaccionar-ante-ciberataques-en-las-pymes\/","title":{"rendered":"3 tips for preventing and reacting to cyber-attacks on SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have already talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/blog\/cyberinsurance-part-ii-insurable-coverages\/\">why take out cyber insurance<\/a>\u00a0in companies, and various aspects of the <strong>security of our data<\/strong>. Today we want to give some useful tips to try to minimise the chances of being attacked or, at least, to reduce the chances of falling into the nets of cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<h2>The human factor is essential in the prevention of cyber-attacks<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to anti-virus, backups and updates of software and hardware used in the company, the <strong>workers play an essential role<\/strong>. On them will depend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regularly update the <strong>passwords<\/strong>, being the same \u201c<em>robust<\/em>\u201d9 digits or more, crossing letters and numbers, capitalisation...<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be attentive to mails<\/strong> received: unknown senders, spelling mistakes in the subject lines, emails in languages we do not expect... are a source of problems, and we must control what we open and where we click.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This last point is particularly important, since they are <strong>the source of most security breaches<\/strong>. For this reason, it is vitally important to train our teams to have a minimum understanding of what to do and what not to do.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5318\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ciberseguridad-pymes.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber risks in business\" width=\"950\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The <em>firewall:<\/em>\u00a0essential in the protection of information and data<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong><em>firewall<\/em> <\/strong>is a tool (it can be a <em>software<\/em> or a <em>hardware<\/em>) whose fundamental task is to make \u201c<strong>filter<\/strong>\u201d. Its pre-configuration is essential, as it will depend on it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>control <\/strong>that is made<strong> in the face of possible intrusions<\/strong> in internal networks within the company<strong> from the outside<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The limitations that are implemented in the connections from inside the organisation to the outside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It allows us to restrict or at least make it more difficult for malicious code to gain access to our company network, as well as to the <strong>intrusions by third parties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is highly advisable to have one of these in the <strong>SMES<\/strong>, However, we must be aware that they cannot protect, for example, against the <em>phising<\/em>, We need to be more cautious with e-mail, as we said.<\/p>\n<h2>Cybersecurity helps during the attack and afterwards as well<\/h2>\n<p>We have talked about prevention mechanisms. However, once you are attacked, you have to know how to react. As many cybersecurity experts say: <em>\u201cthe question is not whether we will suffer an attack, but when it will take place\u201d.\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of cyber insurance, but among the best is one that offers us:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Cybersecurity School:<\/strong> training pills accessible to all employees of the insured company<\/li>\n<li><strong>24-hour helpline<\/strong> in the event of intrusions that we suffer: experts will help us to detect the origin of the problem and how to remedy it (it is a complementary service to the IT maintenance service that we must have in the company).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coverage against indemnities, penalties<\/strong> or even extortion, which we have to deal with: this is the best-known cover, but a full coverage policy is essential.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition, with the <strong>new Data Protection Regulation<\/strong> which is now entering into force, the sanctions and responsibilities are much broader than they have been up to now.<\/p>\n<p>If you want from <strong>PIB Group Iberia<\/strong> let us help you find the <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/companies\/insurance-solutions-for-businesses\/cyber-risk-insurance\/\">cyber insurance for businesses<\/a> you need, contact us. We have the best policy in the Spanish insurance market today, which has imported international experience to our country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics show an increasing number of cyber attacks on Spanish SMEs. Let's see how to correct it<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,152],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-14711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empresas","category-profesionales","tag-ciberseguridad"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}