An estimated 77 million data records were breached in July 2020 alone.
But which businesses and organisations are most at risk?
Is there a particular sector that cyber criminals are targeting?
What are the most popular methods of attack?
Make sure your business is protected!
You need to be asking yourself:
- Is my business in one of the most vulnerable sectors?
- Am I securing my business against the likely forms of attack?
This helpful short video, released by IT Governance, leading global provider of cyber risk and privacy management solutions, gives some of the answers:
Know your risk level!
Are you in one of the high risk sectors?
Everyone needs to make sure that their business and client data is secure, but this is especially relevant if you can see that you are at increased risk.
Know how to become as secure as possible!
Knowing the most common causes of data breach enables you to plan your defence.
The top causes are:
- cyber attack
- vulnerabilities in the system
- internal error
Cyber attacks take many forms, and can be exceedingly clever. At the end of the day, if a criminal wants something badly enough, they’ll find a way. But most of the time, if you make it hard, they’ll go somewhere easier instead.
Things you definitely CAN control are your vulnerability, and the risk of internal error.
Vulnerabilities in your system
These are usually avoidable by having the latest updates and patches to all your operating systems and software, and by using protection software and techniques, such as anti-virus and firewalls.
Constantly updating everything can be a drain on time and resources, but there are ways to automate this process; see for instance our patch management service.
As far as anti-virus and other protection software, give us a call if you’d like to discuss how we’d suggest covering your internet security.
Internal Error
By this we mean human error – a staff member clicking on an unsafe link, or responding to a phishing email that looks as if it’s come from you, the boss, perhaps?
This risk is best combated by training your staff really well. And then keep on training them, so that cyber security is always in the front of their minds.
Again, there are a number of ways to go about doing this. Give us a call if you’d like some pointers – we’d be happy to help you find the solution that fits your needs the best.