How to Secure Your Mid-Size Organization From the Next Cyber Attack

While the major headlines tend to focus on large enterprises
getting breached – such as Sony, Equifax, or Target the actual
reality is that small and mid-sized companies are experiencing
similar threats.

According to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report,
fifty-eight percent of malware attack victims are SMBs.

Added to this is the fact that attack vectors that target small
and medium-sized businesses are growing increasingly sophisticated,
which makes securing them respectively challenging, and the trend
of targeting ransomware campaigns on smaller organizations, as
attackers assume smaller outfits are more likely to quickly pay in
order to avoid damage to their business and reputation.

Cisco’s 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study states that
44 percent of cyber attacks cost organizations over $500,000 in
financial damages. To put it simply, the cost of being breached is
rising.

That said, there is a lot you can do to enhance your security
posture within your available resources.

• Ensure that your organization has basic security hygiene
  processes in place. This includes employee cyber safety training,
  implementing unique IDs, password management and general cyber
  education.
• Set system access limitations for employees and third-party
  vendors so that people only access the data they actually
  need.
• Ensure that your systems and apps across the network, your
  databases and servers are updated and patched
• Utilize an updated and robust anti-malware solution, that
  provides security across your entire environment.
• Have an incident response plan in place, so that you can
  quickly respond in the event of a breach.

Want to hear first-hand advice from an experienced CISO? ^[2]
on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, at 1:00 PM EST as Wade P. Richmond,
founder, and CEO of CISO ToGo, talks about what SMBs can do to
protect their network from cyber attacks effectively.

, and we’ll send you a registration email. See you on
January 30, 2019, at 1:00 PM EST to discuss how you can effectively
secure your SMB organization from cyber attack.
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