3 Cybersecurity Mistakes Most Businesses Make and How to Avoid Them | Entrepreneur

Cybersecurity risks get increasingly complex every year, and businesses of all kinds are under attack. Despite their best efforts, many companies face significant cybersecurity challenges due to cybercriminals’ sophisticated tactics — and the tactics are only getting more sophisticated. Attackers are evolving, and even well-prepared organizations can become targets. Rather than focusing on mistakes, it’s important to recognize that businesses are up against skilled adversaries. The key is to continue adapting and strengthening defenses to stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

The constantly evolving nature of cyber threats indicates it’s crucial to recognize where businesses must focus. Given this, I suggest focusing on three of the most common cybersecurity errors companies make with actionable advice on safeguarding against them. These observations are meant to help you fortify your defenses, which come from my experience and the developing patterns I have observed over my career.

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Don’t Make These Cybersecurity Mistakes in Your Business in 2021 | Small Business Trends

Data privacy and cybersecurity became buzzwords in 2020, and for good reason. Due to bad privacy practices and cybersecurity mistakes, businesses both big and small were affected by data security vulnerabilities.

Data breaches such as the Solar Winds hack, Nuclear Weapons Agency Breach, and Clearview AI’s entire client list being stolen were just a few results of software vulnerabilities. Hackers gained access to T-Mobile’s employees’ email accounts, compromising customer and employee data, and Nintendo left 160,000 users vulnerable from a massive hijacking campaign.

Even Twitter experienced a large phishing attack that resulted in penetration tools being stolen. The number of attacks were ample, proving that businesses must take cybersecurity and data privacy more seriously.

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