The lurking threat of cyber attacks is always present. They can cause electrical blackouts, failure of military equipment, and breaches of national security secrets. Valuable, sensitive data like medical records are vulnerable. They can disrupt phone and computer networks or paralyze systems, making data unavailable.

In this post from Jim Richberg, a Forbes Technology Council Member, the author outlines four simple activities that can go a long way toward protecting your organization: Implementing basic cyber hygiene, patching know vulnerabilities, backing up critical systems, and testing incident response.

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