SITE ASSESSMENT QUIZ

Do your computer systems really meet the needs of your business?  Is your critical business data protected from unauthorised access? Take a minute to answer the questions below to see how your company stacks up. Don’t worry – your answers will be anonymous and you won’t be graded, but you will receive valuable tips and information on steps you can take to improve your business practice and network security. True or false: Small businesses are less vulnerable to online attacks because hackers and other bad guys tend to go after bigger companies? True False Dont Know Businesses frequently have the resources available within their existing environments but don’t know about and/or how to use them. Are your technology systems properly supporting your business processes? Yes No Dont Know How reliant are you on the availability of your computer systems? Could you lose important business if your computers were to fail at a critical time? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation have a firewall (i.e. software located on your network that protects the resources of your private network from hackers on the internet) installed and running? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation have anti-virus and spyware protection software installed, either on the network or on individual computers and is it updated regularly? Yes No Dont Know Is all the software that you currently use on your PCs legal (i.e. do the number of installations match the number of purchased licenses)? Yes No Dont Know Do you regularly back up your critical data? Yes No Dont Know If yes, are you sure your backup processes are actually working? Have you ever tried to restore your data? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation regularly check for patches and updates to its software, and install them when they are released? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation use strong passwords? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation have a documented security policy in place (i.e. the set of rules and practices that regulate how an organisation manages and protects sensitive information)? Yes No Dont Know Does your organisation regularly educate employees about online security? Yes No Dont Know When employees leave the company, does your organisation immediately take away their network access or change the 'Administrator' password if known by that employee? Yes No Dont Know Are your IT processes documented so that someone could take over in the event of your local in-house IT 'guru' being on holidays or ill? Yes No Dont Know