CYBERSECURITY FOR ACCOUNTING FIRMS & ACCOUNTANTS
Today, more than ever, accounting firms face the challenge of protecting their critical data. From natural disasters and human error to cyberattacks, it’s essential to ensure the security and smooth operation of our businesses.
TicTac has created specialized solutions to improve your cybersecurity level and ensure your business continuity.
Protect your business from Cyberattacks.
Why Accounting Firms Should Take Cyberattacks Seriously
Cyberattacks aren’t just for big businesses. If you think your accounting firm is safe, think again. Only 20% of attacks target large businesses, while 80% target small businesses like accounting firms. This means that if you’re not prepared, you’re at the forefront of the risk.
In a cyberattack, the hacker is looking to gain access to your data and completely subjugate your business. They can destroy your critical data and backups. Think about what this means for your customers.
The goal is usually financial extortion, which has serious financial consequences. Many accounting firms have not taken the necessary cybersecurity measures, leading to client loss, fines, and legal consequences.
In recent years, our team has helped many accounting firms recover their data after a hacker encrypted it. Most accounting firms had backups either locally on a second partition of the disk, or on another disk, or on a NAS network drive, or on external drives, or on services like Google Drive. Unfortunately, at the critical moment when the cyberattack occurred, everyone realized that they did not have a backup because it had also been “broken” by the hacker.
Since 2019, hackers haven’t just broken into accounting offices for a quick attack. They observe carefully and study how backups are taken. If they find backups on an external device or network drive, they corrupt them first. Only then do they launch the main attack, because without that, there is no chance of ransom being paid.
The following proposals from TicTac Cyber Security fill this gap, offering specialized solutions that ensure the protection and continuity of your operations.
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1. SUGGESTIONS FOR ACCOUNTING FIRMS & ACCOUNTANTS
1. Protection from Cyber Attacks – Accounting Cyber Angel with Wiser
With the Accounting Cyber Angel subscription plan, accounting firms with 2 to 30 jobs can access basic device protection services through EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) with human supervision at a very preferential price.
The difference between an EDR service and a simple Antivirus is that EDR, in addition to the basic antivirus functions, offers advanced protection and monitoring tools from specialized cybersecurity engineers. One of the most significant problems with using Antivirus software without special supervision is that hackers can easily bypass it, leaving your data exposed.
For even greater protection, TicTac’s Wiser platform offers online cybersecurity training programs for you and all your employees. Using modern software with animation videos and automated Phishing Tests, the understanding of the basic principles of cybersecurity is ensured, while Reporting and Certification are also provided, enhancing the knowledge and preparedness of your staff against cyber threats.
2. Backup & Disaster Recovery – Accounting Business Continuity
The backup systems used in most small and medium-sized businesses today are insufficient to meet the security needs of accounting offices against cyberattacks. Many offices do not have standardized backup procedures, and their backups are not monitored.
In the past, simply using an external drive or NAS storage for a business’s backups may have been enough to protect against natural disasters or human error. However, today, cyberattacks are changing the game, as hackers in 95% of cases first destroy backups before attacking business data.
TicTac, using Acronis‘ service, offers Cloud or local backups that are resistant to ransomware attacks and encryption.
In the event of a business data disaster, the ability to recover the Server and its data in the Cloud within 30 minutes is provided.
3. Accounting Incident Response & Cyber Insurance Retainer
While systems like EDR and Cloud Backup offer protection, they cannot prevent all persistent cyberattacks. If a hacker decides to target an organization and has enough time, they are likely to break into the network, causing problems for staff in their daily lives.
For such cases, TicTac offers the Incident Response & Cyber Insurance Retainer, which provides insurance coverage for cyber attacks and immediate intervention by specialist cybersecurity engineers.
The TicTac team intervenes remotely within 1 hour and with a physical presence within 24 hours to take action in critical situations.
The program also includes insurance coverage up to €1,000,000 for technical and legal services and business interruption costs, offering financial protection to your business in the event of a cyberattack.
4. Cybersecurity Audit and Business Continuity Recovery Plan
This is a series of audits involving a cybersecurity and business continuity audit exercise that is recommended to be carried out once a year in every organization. During this exercise, we discover vulnerabilities in the external and internal perimeter of the organization, as well as the speed or ability to recover from a cyberattack. All protection systems are also checked for their effectiveness.
More specifically, the services provided are the following:
- External Whitebox Penetration Testing
After providing us with basic information about your infrastructure (IP addresses), our team will perform a test to determine how easy it is for a third party to penetrate your infrastructure. - Risk Assessment
Our team will review your backup practices, disaster recovery time, and endpoint policies and recommend improvement steps. We will also review the existence of logs (firewall, access logs, etc.) and conduct a formal audit to determine if there are any signs of a breach in your organization on your endpoints and servers. - Private – Cybersecurity Training for Staff
In a 4-hour seminar, we train your staff on the new ways that malicious users exploit technology to break into accounts and gain access to corporate or personal data, along with best practices for avoiding them.
5. Firewall & Management
The Firewall is an essential infrastructure control element, as it is the contact between an organization’s internal network and the outside world. It controls what enters and exits our network in terms of connections and data, thus increasing the protection of our network from external malicious users. It also allows us to segment our network so that we can limit the damage if a cyberattack occurs.
ATTENTION: Many people buy and install a firewall, but no one supervises it. Therefore, it does not have meaningful participation in protecting the network.
SOLUTIONS FOR ACCOUNTING OFFICES
Suggestions for accounting firms and accounting offices with few jobs (1-3).
Accounting Incident Response Retainer & Cyber Insurance
- Immediate intervention (within 1 hour remotely and 24 hours with physical presence)
- Infection Control & Investigation
- Cleaning of affected terminals
- Recovery from the cyberattack
- Cybersecurity insurance coverage contract up to 1 million euros
Accounting Cyber Check & Business Continuity
External Whitebox Penetration Testing
Risk assessment
Cybersecurity training for staff
Firewall Complete Protection & Management
- Firewall installation study
- Firewall Supply
- Implementing Network Segmentation
- Implementation of secure external access installation (VPN – Virtual Private Network)
- Firewall management and monitoring
Accounting Cyber Angel
- EDR Terminal Protection System
*EDR Technical Support (Monday – Saturday 08:00 – 22:00)
Accounting Business Continuity
- Cloud Backup 100GB*
- Disaster Recovery 100GB*
- Daily backup supervision by our engineers
- Data and Server Restore in 30 minutes
*Possibility to increase package storage space.
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