Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can find it difficult to protect themselves against cybercrime and the loss of important data, since proper security can mean costs and effort. And how to know where to turn?
To remedy this, the Confederation of Fire Protection Associations Europe (CFPA Europe), an alliance of more than 20 national safety bodies, has developed a European cybersecurity guideline especially for SMEs: the CFPA-E Guideline No 11:2018 S, “Guideline on Cyber Security for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.”
This is based on the German Guideline VdS 10000 (formerly VdS 3473) and provides an approach that enables small and medium-sized enterprises to protect themselves against cyber risks in an appropriate and affordable way. The CFPA-E Guideline No 11:2018 was published by CFPA Europe at the end of 2018 and is available free, at www.cfpa-e.eu.
The association Insurance Europe has officially endorsed the new guidelines. This information security resilience can be examined and certified on the basis of the guideline in audits – and thus also verified for dealings with business partners and insurers.
The Guideline VdS 10000 is still available free to interested German parties at www.vds-shop.de. If you would like more details on the guideline, you can also book one of the VdS seminars on this topic at www.vds.de/lehrgaenge/cyber.
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