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Security Best Practices for Startups

To give you a few hints and incentives for enhancing your IT security, here is a guide on security best practices that every business can apply. From start-ups to enterprises, security will always be a concern. Our guide will teach you essential considerations to take when building out your IT security plan.
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Security best practice for startups

In this whitepaper:

  1. Security needs to be a priority!
  2. Employee education
  3. Password Policy
  4. Access Control
  5. Data Security
  6. Secure Coding
  7. Continuous Security Testing
  8. The Conclusion

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When launching a start-up, founders think of everything that needs to be done to establish a professional company. New features, new users, and ways to create a unique business come to mind most of the time. Most founders often neglect that everything valuable to the start-up needs to be protected in that early stage. Although big companies have much higher volumes of data, many hackers target small businesses. As shown in a report on the „State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium-Sized Businesses“ by the Ponemon Institute, the percentage of targeted small and medium-sized companies reached 66 % in 2019. Due to a lack of security in the primary stage, start-ups are most vulnerable in their first 18 months.

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