"NCSC Launches Two New Tools for Small Businesses"

The UK’s leading cybersecurity agency has recently launched two new services designed to help small businesses to enhance their cyber risk management more effectively.  The National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) announced a Cyber Action Plan, a questionnaire for small organizations and individuals/families, which delivers a free personalized security to-do list depending on the answers it receives.  The GCHQ-run agency’s second new service is Check Your Cyber Security.  Accessible via the action plan, it can be used by non-technical employees to find and fix a small range of security issues in their organization.  The NCSC noted that a handful of simple online checks are run to identify common vulnerabilities in public-facing IT systems, including web browsers, IP addresses, websites, and email inboxes.  The idea is for the NCSC to help less well-resourced organizations get the security basics right to deter opportunistic cybercriminals.  The new services are certainly needed.  According to a government report last year, nearly two-fifths (38%) of small businesses in the UK suffered a “cyber incident” over the previous 12 months.

Infosecurity reports: "NCSC Launches Two New Tools for Small Businesses"