In today’s digital age, technology reigns supreme, leaving businesses to face an ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks and data breaches. The importance of implementing robust digital protection measures cannot be overstated. Safeguarding sensitive information, preserving customer trust, and ensuring uninterrupted operations are vital to a successful business strategy. This article explores 15 effective ways to protect your business digitally, offering practical tips and solutions to fortify your defenses against the lurking dangers of the online world.
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15 Ways to Digitally Protect Your Business | Getentrepreneurial.com
In today’s digital age, technology reigns supreme, leaving businesses to face an ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks and data breaches. The importance of implementing robust digital protection measures cannot be overstated. Safeguarding sensitive information, preserving customer trust, and ensuring uninterrupted operations are vital to a successful business strategy. This article explores 15 effective ways to protect your business digitally, offering practical tips and solutions to fortify your defenses against the lurking dangers of the online world.
The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far | WIRED
WHETHER THE FIRST six months of 2022 have felt interminable or fleeting—or both—massive hacks, data breaches, digital scams, and ransomware attacks continued apace throughout the first half of this complicated year. With the Covid-19 pandemic, economic instability, geopolitical unrest, and bitter human rights disputes grinding on around the world, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and digital attacks have proved to be thoroughly enmeshed in all aspects of life.
With another six months left in the year, though, there’s more still to come. Here are the biggest digital security debacles that have played out so far.
The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year | WIRED
WHAT A WAY to kick off a new decade. 2020 showcased all of the digital risks and cybersecurity woes you’ve come to expect in the modern era, but this year was unique in the ways Covid-19 radically and tragically transformed life around the world. The pandemic also created unprecedented conditions in cyberspace, reshaping networks by pushing people to work from home en masse, creating a scramble to access vaccine research by any means, generating new fodder for criminals to launch extortion attempts and scams, and producing novel opportunities for nation-state espionage.
Here’s WIRED’s look back at this strange year and the breaches, data exposures, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored campaigns, and digital madness that shaped it. Stay safe out there in 2021.
What These 4 Data Breaches Can Tell Us About Security | All Business
Nobody is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes, and anyone can fail — especially in the business world.
IBM’s “2015 Cost of Data Breach Study” shows that the average total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, representing a 23 percent increase since 2013. The cost for each lost or stolen record increased 6 percent, from a consolidated average of $145 to $154.
Several companies also have been sued for their negligence in preventing these attacks. Data breaches are huge failures, but taking a look at these four big ones can teach us a thing or two about how to better secure our data.
Is Your Small Business at Risk for a Cyber Attack? | All Business
Cybersecurity is in the news lately, with President Obama recently proposing legislation that would set federal standards for notifying consumers about data breaches. Consumers aren’t the only ones worried about a cyber attack: Small business owners, too, are concerned, says a recent report from the National Small Business Association (NSBA).
More than nine out of 10 small business owners in the study cited cybersecurity as a concern. This is not an unfounded fear: Half of them report they’ve already suffered a cyber attack, with 61 percent of those attacks taking place in the last 12 months.
What happened to these entrepreneurs as a result of the attack? A service interruption was the most common problem, followed by the business website going down. In addition, 19 percent had either their business credit cards or bank account hacked.
The cost of cyber attacks is also on the rise. In 2014 the average cyber attack cost a small business $20,752, a substantial increase from the average of $8,699 an attack cost businesses in 2013.
World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks | Information Is Beautiful
Check out an infographic that puts all of the data breaches of the last few years in visual terms
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