Securing your business in time for Christmas: CyberCheck and other security solutions from Zen

The festive season is fast approaching, and for many small businesses this means a busy and profitable time of the year. But, unlike many others over the Christmas period, cybercriminals won't be taking a rest. In fact, they'll be as keen as ever to take advantage of your vulnerabilities.

According to 2019 research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), small businesses in the UK were targeted by 10,000 cyber-attacks every day. And in the four years since, this figure is only likely to have become greater.

These attacks can cause serious damage to your data, assets, reputation, and revenue. The average cost of a disruptive cyber-attack to UK small businesses is more than £1,000, which can have a significant impact on your cash flow and profitability. And that’s just the financial implication.

That’s why you need to do everything you reasonably can to secure your business, and in this run up to the Christmas period, there’s never been a better time.

Real-time protection with CyberCheck

CyberCheck from Zen provides real-time monitoring and protection of your business web domain to help protect you from potential phishing, hacking and ransomware threats.

Your business web domain is your website address. If you have this presence online, it is likely to be a continual target for attack from cyber criminals (both to your website and through malicious emails to you and your users).

Powered by leading cybersecurity specialists Cyjax, CyberCheck from Zen will ensure that your business is monitored around-the-clock, ensuring that you are alerted to threats as soon as they are detected. A three-step process: Monitor, Alert and Support helps you to identify and deal with security threats in real-time.

This passive, automated service can prove invaluable to smaller businesses that may not have the resources to employ a dedicated security team, and only costs £10pm per business domain, a fraction compared to the cost of employing a security specialist.

CyberCheck was designed and built specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, to provide the tools, insight and expertise that might otherwise be lacking in your organisation.

We recommend CyberCheck as your first stop for small business security. All alerts and recommendations are provided in non-technical easy to understand wording, and the service has already prevented tens of thousands of attacks since March 2021. For more information on CyberCheck from Zen you can read our blog post here, or visit our website.

Take your cybersecurity even further

If you want your protection to extend to every part of your business, our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service does just that, covering all environments from endpoints to premises and even the cloud, and helping to reduce the risks that your business faces.

Using a combination of automation and real human expertise, MDR provides continual monitoring of your business to rapidly detect and respond to threats. Like CyberCheck, MDR can provide a powerful security presence for businesses that do not have access to a skilled in-house team.

You can read much more about MDR from Zen in our blog here.

Our full security suite

At Zen, we have security solutions for a wide range of business needs. From DNS security and penetration testing to powerful cyber triage and managed firewalls, we can help you put cyber security where it should be: front and centre.

To view the full Zen Business security suite, visit our site here.

Apart from our security products, there are also other steps you can take to enhance your cyber security and keep security awareness at the heart of your business. We covered some of those points in , which we recommend as a good read to get you started.