How small businesses can improve their cybersecurity
It’s not only large companies that face cyberattacks – there are affordable steps small companies can take to protect their business data and IT systems.
You can’t assume that your small business is not a target for hackers. As many as three-quarters of smaller businesses are at risk, according to the latest Government Security Breaches Survey, with the worst breaches costing up to £300,000.
Small companies face attack from multiple angles. “Like [larger] enterprises, they face targeted attackers who are interested in intellectual property and other confidential data, as well as using smaller organisations as a way into larger ones,” says David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
And like consumers, they face random, speculative attacks that make up the bu...