IT security for Swiss SMEs and municipalities: How employees become a human firewall
With targeted advice and campaigns, we help you protect your company, community, association or foundation against cyber attacks and use our training to sensitize your employees.
IT security as a subscription or
one-time security check
We promote IT security in your company and help you train your employees to become a human firewall.
Security Assessment
With our security assessment, we check once how well your company is protected against cyber attacks, such as phishing attacks, and where there is the greatest potential for closing security gaps.
Human Firewall
In order to be optimally protected against cyber attacks, your employees should set up a human firewall. For this, IT security must be a central issue in your company. With advice, assessments, training and campaigns, we work together and constantly towards this goal.
IT security check for SMEs and municipalities in Switzerland
IT security is essential, especially for small and medium-sized companies as well as municipalities, associations and foundations. Our IT security solutions are specifically designed to meet these needs. Our security assessment includes:
phishing campaign
With a phishing campaign, we determine how well employees are aware of security-relevant topics and what is the state of IT security in your company.
find out moreData Breach Report
We create a report that informs you whether your data has already been accessed without authorization and provide solutions through advice to close your security gaps.
1x phishing campaign (max 25 users)
1x Data Breach Report
including all licenses
IT security check à la linkyard
We turn your employees into a human firewall
In order to ensure IT security in your community, foundation, association or SME in the long term, raising awareness and regular repetition of campaigns and training courses is essential. As a result, employees become aware of threats on the Internet and can better identify and prevent cyber attacks and phishing attacks.
Security Awareness Assessment
Training campaign
phishing campaign
The Inside Man
Data breach report every 6 months
Follow-up meeting every 6 months
+ additional services
For an additional charge, we will also strengthen your IT security with the following offers
password management
A central and secure word that generates and stores passwords.
Remote Work
Equip laptops with the tools they need to work securely from anywhere.
Live Security Virtual Coach
The coach will guide you through various areas.
Compliance
We will upgrade you so that you meet even the highest compliance requirements.
What does our IT security subscription look like in practice?
If you decide on your mission to train your employees to become a human firewall, we will provide you with comprehensive dashboards and analyses so that you are always informed about the risks of a successful cyber attack and how well employees are able to identify any phishing attacks. This comprehensively strengthens IT security in your company.
Why subscribe to IT security?
In practice, it has been shown that employee awareness of IT security has increased following appropriate training. This is reflected in a lower vulnerability to phishing emails. But after some time, awareness decreases again and employees become more vulnerable to cyber attacks again. We want to counteract this development with our "Human Firewall" offer. The aim is to make your employees aware of security problems and the dangers of cyber attacks through regular measures and training, so that they can sustainably form the first line of defense against hackers and cyber criminals or become a human firewall. For SMEs, municipalities, associations and foundations in particular, it is important that participants are sensitized accordingly to risks relevant to IT security.
contact usIT security as an obligation
4 reasons why IT security is essential, especially for Swiss SMEs, municipalities, associations and foundations
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Business continuity management
What is phishing?
Phishing attacks pose a serious threat to the IT security of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as communities, associations and foundations. In Switzerland, too, many companies are confronted with the increasing number of such cyber attacks. These fraudulent attempts to steal sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and personal identification details have become extremely sophisticated and aim to infiltrate even well-protected systems.
Phishing is a method by which fraudsters pretend to be legitimate organizations in order to obtain information. This is often done via fake emails, websites, or even social media. Recipients are tricked into clicking on fake links or revealing personal information without realizing that they are victims of fraud.
Why are SMEs, municipalities, associations and foundations particularly at risk?
The organizational forms mentioned above are often less well protected than large companies or institutions. They may not have the resources for advanced safety measures or employee training. Phishers specifically exploit these vulnerabilities to penetrate their systems.
phishing campaign
Phishing campaigns are simulated phishing carried out by linkyard to train employees and sensitize them to the dangers of phishing attacks. In these simulated attacks, employees are sent fake emails or messages that are similar to real phishing attacks. The goal is to see how employees react to these fake attacks and then give them feedback and training to improve their behavior.
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What is IT security?
IT security means the special protection of technical IT systems, although the term cybersecurity is often used synonymously. The classic protection goals of IT security include confidentiality, integrity and availability. However, it is not only information itself that is protected, as IT security plays a role in almost every sector of the company today and therefore many other assets can also be attacked via information security. As a result, IT security covers different areas of the company and also protects financial and operational functions. This dependence on important corporate functions illustrates the relevance of IT security, as it is found almost everywhere in the company. A cyber attack can have serious consequences as sensitive information can be disclosed or control over important processes (such as payment systems) can be lost.
For effective prevention against cyber attacks, security behaves like a chain of measures, and every single link in this chain must be strong. Humans are the weakest link in this safety chain. Viruses can thus be introduced through bad passwords or phishing emails. The foundations of effective IT security are based on a holistic systematic approach. A company's safety management system must cover all aspects, both the technical side and that of the employees. It is important to gradually improve this system. Information security is a lively process that requires continuous development so that it remains up to date.
Contributions on IT security in SMEs and communities
