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Online security training for staff recommended

Internet security training and awareness about practices that can help people avoid online threats should be offered by businesses to their employees, it has been stated.

Small businesses should provide this kind of training to staff as a way of protecting themselves against online fraud and security issues, according to Get Safe Online.

According to the organisation's managing director Tony Neate, such training is vital and can include everything from policies to how to behave online.

"People shy away from policies and they can wheel out of control in big companies, but at this level they are a good thing to have," he said.

"It can just be a checklist of things you can and cannot do such as how you expect them to use the internet and what sort of devices they can use on company machines – just simple things like that."

Small businesses lose up to £800 a year to fraud and online crime, according to a recent survey by the Federation of Small Businesses.

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