Business Protection & Security Resources

Ensure your business stays protected through the holidays, tax season and all year round! Check out the following resources on how to make sure your business is secure, protect yourself from cyber intruders and fraud, plan for a disaster and more.

• General Business Protection
• Disaster Preparedness
• Cyber Security
• Fraud

General Business Protection

• ADT Tips for Business Security
• Business Security Advice from Crimedoctor.com: Valuable information on parking lot security, robbery prevention, scams, workplace violence and more
• "Get the Insurance Coverage You Need to Protect Your Business and Your Future"
• "Insuring Your Home-Based Business"
• Security Tips for Small Businesses: Employees and crime, robbery prevention and burglary
• Small Business Security Tips from SecurityWorld.com: Comprehensive security checklist
• Ten Ways to Protect Your Business (.PDF): VSCPA Financial Fitness brochure on maintaining the growth and continuity of your business

Disaster Preparedness

• Institute for Business and Home Safety: Property loss reduction information on a variety of potentially devastating disasters, including flood, freezing weather, high wind, wildfire, earthquake, hail, water damage and tornado
• READYBusiness: Site from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers continuity and emergency planning, insurance coverage information and much more
• Small Business Administration Disaster Preparedness Considerations: Tips for preparing facilities, operations, critical information/communications, insurance and more
• VSCPA Disaster Recovery Links: Many resources and links to other disaster recovery/preparedness sites
• "Weathering the Storm": Catastrophes, real and man-made, underscore the need for disaster planning.

• Business Technology: Security Tips That Will Scare and Help You: Cyber security info from InformationWeek
• "IT Checklist for Small Businesses"
• Microsoft Security Central: Microsoft software security updates, tools and tips, security response and links to security chatrooms and newsgroups
• Small Business Administration Cyber Security Resources
  

Fraud

• AICPA Antifraud & Corporate Responsibility Resource Center
• "Fraud and Theft Start Small"
• "Fraud Prevention Steps for Small Businesses"
• "Protect Your Operation From Identity Theft"
• "Protect Yourself from Applicant Fraud"
• "Small Business — Fraud Can and Does Occur"