Best Practices Used by Businesses to Maintain Good Cyber Hygiene During Covid19 Pandemic

Abstract

Businesses using cyberspace are expanding every day, with Internet users performing different activities affecting cyber hygiene. The user's actions may be good or bad-ultimately determining the state of cyber hygiene. Good cybersecurity hygiene requires a thorough implementation of the best practices to improve safety and protect information or resources, while bad practices lead to data corruption, loss and breaches. Compromised cyber hygiene is the result of exposure to various cyber-attacks. Our paper reports the best practices used by different business sectors to maintain cyber hygiene. The study used a qualitative survey mounted on google with 20 business owners and Information Technology managers. We explored the use of best practices to understand business experiences in reducing and avoiding cyber-attacks and improve cyber health. We analyzed the collected data and presented the findings. Cyber essentials have been recommended as the guideline to mitigate cyber risks.