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Practical Cybersecurity Guidance for Business Leaders
Understand your risks, strengthen essential safeguards and prepare your
team to respond when something goes wrong.
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Assess Your Current IT and Cybersecurity Posture
Evaluate 24 essential technology and cybersecurity practices, identify
potential gaps and establish practical priorities for improvement.
- Accounts and access controls
- Employee security practices
- Devices, updates and monitoring
- Backups and recovery readiness
- Incident planning and vendor risk
Build Strong Security Foundations
Start with these plain-English resources covering the safeguards every
small and midsize business should understand.
5 Cybersecurity Steps Every Small Business Should Take
Focus first on the protections that address the most common and
damaging business risks.
What Is Multi-Factor Authentication?
Learn how MFA helps protect accounts when a password has been stolen
or compromised.
How to Spot a Phishing Email
Help employees recognize suspicious messages, links, attachments
and requests before acting.
Principle of Least Privilege
Limit employee, administrator and vendor permissions to only what
each person genuinely needs.
Put the Guidance into Practice
Use these fillable PCC tools to document responsibilities, review access
and prepare for disruptive incidents.
Cyber Incident: First 60 Minutes
Guide escalation, evidence preservation, containment and leadership
decisions during the first critical hour.
Third-Party and Vendor Access Review
Inventory vendor access, confirm continuing need, review safeguards
and remove outdated permissions.
IT Onboarding and Offboarding
Coordinate accounts, devices, permissions and security requirements
when employees join, change roles or leave.
Explore Common Cybersecurity Risks
Go deeper into the threats and decisions most relevant to business
owners and leadership teams.
Ransomware
Understand how ransomware enters and spreads through business systems.
Employee Awareness
Learn why employees—and especially new hires—are frequent targets.
Threat Detection and Response
See how active monitoring strengthens Microsoft 365 security.
Network Protection
Learn what firewalls do and why businesses still need them.
When You Need Expert Help
Strengthen Your Business Cybersecurity
PCC helps Bay Area businesses assess risk, improve safeguards,
monitor threats and prepare for incidents.