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Middle Tennessee 99 East Main Street, Suite 200 Franklin, TN 37064 Chicagoland 2 Trans Am Plaza Dr Suite 530 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 Network Monitoring & Management Cloud Design, Integration & Migration Infrastructure Design & Management Email Design & Migration Mobile & Remote Solutions Office Relocation & Expansion Remote Solution Design & Deployment Cybersecurity should be a top priority for every business, as the threat landscape continues to evolve and grow more sophisticated With ransomware, phishing attacks and data theft affecting companies all around the world on a daily basis, it is not a question of IF your business falls victim, it's a question of WHEN, and how extensive the damage will be in its wake

For companies that store customer data, private health or financial information, or process credit card transactions, cybersecurity is no longer an option, but a necessity With cyberattacks becoming increasingly sophisticated and frequent, it's crucial for businesses to protect themselves and their customers' sensitive information

Due to the growing threat of cyberattacks and the increasing importance placed on cybersecurity, insurance companies have increased standards for maintaining insurability Cyber insurance is becoming an essential part of a comprehensive risk management strategy, and companies that are not prepared for new protocols could find themselves in financial disaster in the event of a cyber attack

"It doesn't matter if a hacker gets OUR data."

Hackers and cyber criminals feed off the misconception that many small business owners hold that the information they are storing is not valuable or potentially dangerous if leaked Maybe you aren’t storing credit cards and social security numbers, but if you’re storing ANY passwords or personally identifiable information for yourself, your employees or your clients and you’re NOT securing that data, you’re putting a lot of people at risk

"We have cyber insurance. Isn't that enough?"

Cyber Insurance is an important precautionary measure you can take for your business, but many businesses find out too late that there are some things that insurance cannot cover If your company is hit by a malicious ransomware attack, how will that affect your reputation with clients? Will they continue to trust you with their information, or is it possible that public humiliation from cyber criminals might drive a wedge in the confidence they have in you? Many times, cyber insurance has no clause for reputational impact

Just because you HAVE insurance doesn’t mean you WANT to use it Hopefully, you have health insurance in place to cover any medical emergencies, but I doubt you’re signing up for elective open heart surgery any time soon! When it comes to cybersecurity, insurance should be a secondary measure AFTER you have made sure your network is truly SECURE

"We have backups. / We're in the cloud."

The worst thing about hackers is that they’re good at what they do Backups and cloud solutions are necessary measures for data restoration, but they do very little for overall security Criminals have learned how to sit undetected in a network for an extended period of time – however long it takes to figure out where your data is being stored Then, once they’ve launched the ransomware, they’ll often destroy backups or remove permissions completely so your data is completely inaccessible, at least, without paying handsomely for it

Cloud stored data is often similarly targeted by cyber criminals Unfortunately, providers are only responsible for infrastructure security, NOT for the security of the device accessing the cloud If a device is attacked, it has access to the cloud, too

"We're too small to be hacked."

You see it on the news every day Major corporations and organizations losing millions of dollars and tons of private, personal information is hung out like underwear on a flagpole Where the mainstream media has failed, however, is in covering the fact that breaches like these are happening EVERY SINGLE DAY to small and medium sized businesses like yours and mine

Think you’re too small? What about the small, two-person law firm our security team handled a disaster recovery case for? Feeling that they had no need, or perhaps no budget for security, they left their information wide open for hackers to come in and not only steal all their client data, but to also set the ransom for the EXACT amount of money in their bank account, down to the penny When the criminals weren’t paid quickly enough, they began taunting their client base, publicly humiliating them while they faced the devastating decision of paying the ransom or closing their doors forever

If you have valuable information, you need to consider how you are going to protect it

"We can pay the ransom when it happens."

The only thing worse than having your data stolen and being held for ransom is paying that ransom and STILL not recovering your data This is an unfortunate reality in 20% of ransomware attacks

The truth is, ransomware is not all that sophisticated It’s often hastily thrown together, and there are more cases than you might expect where a cybercriminal might genuinely be willing to release your information but is helpless to reverse the damage that has already been done At best case scenario, your options even after paying that ransom would be to dish out even MORE funds towards data recovery services

Worst of all, hackers often leave a back door We are dealing with criminals here, folks, and if they get the impression that they might have a valuable repeat customer on their hands, they are far more likely to leave a hole for them to reenter when they get done spending all your hard-earned money