Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time to remind ourselves of the steps we can take to prevent an unwelcome cyber event that can be highly damaging to small and family-owned businesses.

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The many activities over October remind us that we are not on our own in tackling the scourge and threat posed by cyber criminals.

Help is available, and there are simple and important steps we need to take ourselves to maximise protection.

Just like we wouldn't leave our business premises empty overnight with the doors open, lights left on and our security system deactivated, we need to b

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