One of the most worrying modern crimes that we face all around the world at this time is cyber crime – we often see news reports of businesses and organisations being attacked by cyber criminals and hackers, and it seems to be something that we are seeing more and more of.

If you run a business, it is important that you take cyber crime seriously and do what you can to prevent it from happening to you. Firstly, it is important to know the different types of cyber crime – there are many, but commonly used ones are phishing and hacking, but there are lots of others so you should get a basic idea of what you are up against.

Cyber attacks can not only cause problems for individuals who have been scammed, or had their information obtained fraudulently but they can also cause a lot of damage to a business, both financially and also by harming the reputation of the business.

It is important to ensure that you protect your software and computers as well as you can from cyber crime, and you should also have the correct insurance such as this from JMP providers of cyber security insurance, so that if the worst should happen your business is protected.

There are some basic things that you can do to help protect against cybercrime – these include ensuring that you have strong passwords (a combination of letters, numbers and characters rather than easy to guess ones like names and birthdates) and of course ensuring that you have up to date security software on your computer.