As I mentioned in my last post, effective cybersecurity is a cost of doing business — and staying current with cybersecurity requirements has never been more important.
Cyberthreats are evolving fast — as are the technologies that counter these threats and the regulatory environment that protects individual personal data and privacy.
Do your clients know that 47% of smaller businesses have suffered a cyberattack in the last year — and nearly half of those experienced multiple cyberattacks? Midmarket companies fare even worse: some 53% have experienced a data breach.
Attackers now see small/midmarket businesses as soft-target conduits into their larger partner companies. If your clients haven’t been attacked yet, either they’re lucky or they haven’t yet discovered the breach.
Do you get the uneasy feeling that your company’s cybersecurity risks have increased over the last year? If so, you’re right.
Not only are cyberattack volume and sophistication increasing, attack surfaces — what’s being attacked, how, and why — are also growing. Dramatically.
In my last post, I reviewed why you need technical expertise available on-call 24 x 7 x 365. Now I offer three steps that will take you to the technical expertise you need to keep your IT environment humming so you can focus on your business.
Those inevitable evolutions in technology that your clients must embrace to stay competitive tend to involve integrations of old and new systems, software, functions, and processes.
These efforts often require long-term as well as short-term technical expertise. In effect, your clients require technical expertise on call 24 x 7 x 365.
Those inevitable evolutions in technology that your business must embrace to stay competitive tend to involve integrations of old and new systems, software, functions, and processes.
These integrations often turn out to be arcane and complex, which means you require long-term as well as short-term technical expertise that your staff can access anytime — technical expertise from people familiar with your IT setup and who are, essentially, on call.
