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Protect Your Business With a Cybersecurity Assessment

You may think your network is secure but is it really?

John Teehan
Published in
5 min readFeb 18, 2020

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Cybersecurity is critical to keeping business healthy and safe. Chances are, a significant portion of your business makes use of some online technology, from responding to emails and researching potential clients to working with colleagues and sharing important business data in the cloud. You have likely already done the work to secure your business and deployed the appropriate antivirus software and other security measures. But when was the last time you ordered up a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment?

A crucial time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment is before making any major change to your network setup. Some businesses assume that because they have never (knowingly) experienced a data breach, they are doing everything right and don’t need an assessment. Because healthy organizations are constantly growing and evolving, past experiences are not a reliable indicator of current or future risk.

Risk assessments examine all business technologies in use and meant to reveal any possible vulnerabilities. The goal is to provide your business with an itemized plan that addresses all assessed risks. Having this assessment done and creating a plan, you will have the best tools you need to build a stronger, better…

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John Teehan
The Startup

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