No matter the size of your business, IT security should always be your priority. Scam, phishing, impersonation of staff, virus attacks always lead to financial losses and disruption of business operation.
Cyber attacks on SMBs have increased from 61 percent of respondents in 2017 to 67 percent of respondents in 2018. The occurrence of data breaches involving customer and employee information over 12 months also increased from 54 percent of respondents to 58 percent of respondents.
In the aftermath of these incidents, the respondents’ companies spent an average of $1.43 million, a 33 percent increase from $1.03 million in 2017, because of the damage or theft of IT assets. In addition, disruption to normal operations cost an average of $1.56 million, a 25 percent increase from $1.21 million in 2017.
2018 State of Cybersecurity in SMB, Ponemon Institute
2018 State of Cybersecurity in SMB, Ponemon Institute
If your thinking is that you are a small enough business to be of any interest, that is not true. That usually means that you have a limited priority and budget for the security implementation and are at a greater risk than the whales of industry. Any business has valuable assets that the cybercriminals are interested in. Most of the times implementing the proper security measures costs less than you think and will save you more time than you expect.
Having the industry leaders as partners, we can design and implement complex security measures in compliance with the existing regulations. We also offer educational courses for your staff to prevent most of the social engineering threats that are the leading way of breach now.
