Cybersecurity.
Avoid Cyber Attacks and Mitigate Risks.

Bad actors are chasing everyone. They don’t care how big or small your business is; they only care about breaking in. Only then will they decide what they want to take from you. They’re looking for a foothold. Any foothold. And if they find it, your business, your people, and your money are all exposed.

Let’s not let that happen.

 

Staying Ahead of Cyber Threats is a Full-Time Job

Any loose brick in the wall of your cyber defenses could mean the end of your business. Literally.

Scary stats: According to a report by Hiscox, a provider of cybersecurity insurance policies to small businesses, in 2024, “47% of organizations struggled to attract new customers following a cyber attack, more than doubling from 20% in 2023. Similarly, the loss of existing customers jumped to 43% from 21% the previous year.”

A widely quoted study from 2016 states that 60% of small businesses that are the victims of a cyber attack are out of business within 6 months of the attack. Is that statistic still true? Do you want to be the business to prove it is?

A few cybersecurity facts to consider:

    • Attackers are running scripts that send hundreds of thousands of emails at a time, looking for any breach, at any company, no matter what size they are.
    • Attackers often lurk in your network, discovering your weak points, logging your keystrokes, and harvesting information as well as mapping out the power people – like those who can command a substantially-sized wire transfer be made – for weeks or months before they take any visible action.
    • Attacks on SMBs are rising. A 2023 report from the Identify Theft Resource Center shows 73% of SMBs experienced a cyberattack, data breach, or both in the preceding 12 months. This represents a significant jump from the 58% attack rate in 2021 and 43% in 2022. Reports from other organizations show similar numbers.

Where once upon a time, attackers were primarily after big companies with deep pockets, they’re now only too happy to take smaller bites from more businesses, all while holding your company hostage to their demands.

The scariest statistic of all? The distance between the end of a finger and a mouse button is the measure of how close your business could be to a revenue-hampering, customer-losing, potentially business-ending breach of your cyber defenses.

Why don’t we take a look at your current cybersecurity defenses, identify what’s working and what isn’t, and come up with a plan to address any gaps so you don’t become an unwitting victim? A conversation costs you nothing and could save you… everything.