{"id":181,"date":"2022-07-04T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:57:17","slug":"new-book-helps-smes-to-combat-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/2022\/07\/04\/new-book-helps-smes-to-combat-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book helps SMEs to Combat Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This new book (<a href=\"https:\/\/41010c84-691c-4965-a3c7-b932da8cec30.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/41010c_bbf6d0ab1be04dfebb77b0f87a63617d.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/41010c84-691c-4965-a3c7-b932da8cec30.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/41010c_bbf6d0ab1be04dfebb77b0f87a63617d.pdf\">The Little Book of Cyber Scams<\/a>) has been designed to assist you in taking the necessary steps to protect your small business and customers against cyber criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global pandemic resulted in a seismic shift towards remote working, creating millions of home offices across the UK where hours are spent communicating via online platforms like Zoom or Teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to IBM Security&#8217;s &#8216;Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021&#8217;, the average cost of a data breach for businesses with 81% (or more) of their workforce working remotely was $5.54m. With a recent rise in device and cloud service usage to perform work-related tasks, cybercriminals have capitalised on this increase, leaving more and more people victims of cybercrime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the last few years, cybercriminals have continued to strike as there is more chance a successful attack will go unnoticed for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Little Book of Cyber Scams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><br><strong>The Little Book of Scams will help you:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spot the early signs of an active attack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep your staff up to date with the latest scams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check your business email addresses to see if they have been compromised<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the sender&#8217;s email address on an email without clicking on any links<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make your staff aware of CEO fraud which could cost you large sums of money<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand what personal information about you is available online and how it could be used by a cybercriminal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid you and your staff getting caught out using public Wi-Fi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report cybercrime the right way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It is full of invaluable tools and tips to help you make your business more cyber resilient and in doing so protect your customer&#8217;s valuable data.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new book (The Little Book of Cyber Scams) has been designed to assist you in taking the necessary steps to protect your small business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northwestcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}