Guides
Check out our latest guides on securing your business

• AVG SMB Market Landscape Report 2010

  Read AVG’s SMB Market Landscape Report 2010 and find out more about the key themes and trends impacting SMBs.

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• Securing your start-up or small business

  This guide presents some simple but effective steps that you can take, to ensure that you keep your valuable business assets and customer data secure.

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• Five steps to securing your business website and its content

  If you’re running an online business, then you have a whole lot more threats to your business operation and reputation. And the more successful you are, the more likely it is that the bad guys will target your web site.

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• Guide for businesses on cyber criminals and who to protect against

  Bad guys is a term we use frequently, but do you fully understand who the bad guys are? Before you can properly arm yourself against a security attack and/or breach by the bad guys, it helps if you know who to watch for so that you can put in place the proper layers of defence.

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• Security fears and cloud computing

  Cloud computing could fundamentally change the way businesses adopt new applications and computing power but it also introduces new threats from a security perspective.

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• Social Networking for Business: Risk or ROI?

  LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter and social networking in general are argued by some to have tangible business benefits, but are they nothing more than a business risk gateway or do they have the potential to deliver a real and positive impact upon total Return on Investment (ROI)?

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• Customers, Employees and Businesses: Who Suffers as a Result of a Data Breach?

  Protecting data on your own computer is relatively straightforward but what about information that connects to your business, which is out of your IT department's control?

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• Who's the bigger threat? Staff or cybercriminals

  Internal staff have traditionally been viewed as a bigger threat to business security than external hackers. Does this still hold true given the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals?

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• How to let staff use their Personal Technology Securely

  More and more of us would like to use our personal computer at work, but how can companies allow that while keeping their internal networks secure?

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• How Malware Can Sneak into Your Company Networks and How to Deal With It

  Taking a fire-axe to your broadband connection might sound like the only really effective way to keep viruses and other so-called malware out of your business. But even if rolling the clock back to typewriters and snail-mail was practical, there are still a host of other ways for malware to worm its way onto your network. Here's an overview of the main threats and how to protect against them.

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• Social Engineering: Hacking People not Machines

  The weakest part of any computer system is almost always the human being using it - something criminals and hackers know only too well. By paying attention to the people as well as the computers, businesses can make it much harder for the hackers to break through.

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• Top Tips to Securing your Business Reputation

  To help safeguard your business reputation, this guide contains some top tips to ensure you get the most out of your security software, allowing you to focus on building your reputation, not repairing it.

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• Your Small Business Security Questions Answered:

  Answers to some common small business security questions:

  • If social networks are such a risk, shouldn't we just block them?
  • How liable am I for the loss of sensitive data?
  • How safe is online business banking?

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