Hackers Love Small Businesses!
In 2021, 61% of small to medium sized businesses were targeted by cyber-criminals!
Small businesses are a favorite target of hackers. They see entrepreneurs and small businesses as “low hanging fruit” ripe for conquest.
Small businesses don’t often have the financial resources to hire large security firms and purchase high-end security software and services. Intrusion detection and scanning software, specialized network hardware, and the cost of hiring new employees to keep it all running can add up quickly!
Cybersecurity is critical to the success and survival of businesses. 95% of cyberattacks against SMBs cost each business from $826 to $653,587. 75% of the small businesses that had to deal with a ransomware attack found the costs so damaging, they couldn’t continue to operate (strongdm).
This is what CMLES is all about. We’ve devised a low-cost training program that will bring your employees up to speed and help you setup a defensive strategy to minimize your chances of being subject to such an attack as well as a recovery program to ensure any successful attacks only incur minimal damage.
We’re not going to push specialized hardware or try to sell you programs or hardware you don’t really need. Any recommendations we make for hardware or software products are just that – recommendations that fit within your budget and with whom we have no affiliation.
We are currently in the midst of a smoldering cyberwar which has the very real potential to fully ignite. The more prepared we are as a community, the safer our economy – and therefore the safer everybody will be. It is likely that there are hundreds of thousands of businesses who are unknowingly compromised with the intruders just sitting on it, waiting for the right opportunity to strike.
An all-out cyber-war can potentially destroy a country and their economy. We all have the duty to ourselves, our employees, and our community to do everything within our power to ensure our transactions and digital information is as safe as possible.
If you are a solo entrepreneur or a small business owner and you’re not sure about how to implement security protocols and practices – or even if you’re not sure about cybersecurity, give us a call or send us a message.
We’ll work within you and your budget to ensure your data, your employee data, and your customer data are as safe as possible.
If your made of steel and you’d like to see some of the more recent cybersecurity statistics related to small businesses, here are a few links that will still terrify you just the same:
getastra.com: small-business-cyber-attack-statistics
infosecurity-magazine.com: small-businesses-record