KMU Cyber-Audit

Forty employees, no IT department, and a customer wants to know how your IT security is doing. KMU Cyber-Audit walks you through 29 checkpoints of basic IT security — in plain language, no jargon, with a result on paper at the end. WHAT THE CHECK IS BUILT ON On our own checklist for small and micro businesses up to roughly fifty employees: 29 points in six areas, six of them marked "do first" because they close the most common routes of attack. Every point references the matching controls of ISO/IEC 27001. No certificate, no mountain of paperwork — a stocktaking that fits a business which also has to run itself. WHY SMALL BUSINESSES DO THIS • Because an encrypted server without a backup stops the business for weeks, and most attacks on small companies are not targeted but automated • Because customers, contracting authorities and cyber insurers now send questionnaires that have to be…