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Your business represents your livelihood and a significant investment of time and money, so you need to make sure you protect it. Before you start operating your business, be sure to identify and safeguard against the key risks your business could face.
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Protect Your Intellectual Property (IP)
Get Business Insurance
Reduce the Likelihood of Fraud and Theft
Mitigate Cyber Security Risks
When you’re starting a business, it’s important to know what you can legally protect, what you can’t protect and how to avoid infringing on someone else’s IP. Check out the three most common methods to protect your traditional intellectual property:
Here’s how these protective measures compare:
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Other ways to protect your intellectual property include:
To learn more about how IP works, check out this infographic: How Intellectual Property (IP) in Canada Works.
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Just as you need personal insurance to help protect your car, home and the people you care about, you will need some business insurance to help protect you, your business and your employees. Here are several common types of coverage—be sure to talk to a licensed insurance professional to see what’s right for you.
Fraud and theft come in many shapes and sizes. The good news is preventing them is possible—and, in many cases, easy. Here are a few ways to do it:
For more tips, check out: The Art of Fraud Prevention.
All you have to do is listen to the news to know how rampant cybercrime is today. And since most small businesses lack the money or resources to put proper security practices into place, they are often victims of cyber-attacks. There are three prominent cybercrimes to be aware of and several ways to protect against them:
A common online scam where an email is sent encouraging the recipient to give up personal, business, or financial information—often “informing” the recipient of some urgent situation that requires fast action.
Software that creeps onto your computer to corrupt files, mess up applications, spy on your activity or copy your data—all as a means to steal money or information. Malware could cause your computer to run slowly or crash more often.
A type of malware that copies everything on your computer and locks you out until a ransom is paid. It can often take weeks or longer to recover from this type of attack—and it may be impossible to run your business during that time.
More ways to protect against cyber-attacks:
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