Hacker Proof Your Business in a Few Easy Steps If you own a business, cybercriminals consider you and your customers targets. Hacker Proof your business and don't be an easy target. Over half of U.S.
Hacker Proof Your Business in a Few Easy Steps
If you own a business, cybercriminals consider you and your customers targets. Hacker Proof your business and don’t be an easy target.
Over half of U.S. businesses experienced a cyberattack between 2016 and 2017, a survey by HSB found. Among businesses that were hacked, 72 percent spent over $5,000 per attack on investigations or recovery. Websites are a favorite target of hackers, with attacks on sites increasing 32 percent in 2016, according to Google.
A successful cyberattack can be devastating to your company’s data, finances, and reputation.
The Problem…
Many businesses fall subject to “denial of service” attacks in which the servers are overloaded, rendering the site and service it provides unusable. Similarly, hackers are using a new type of particularly nasty malware called ransomware that locks up computers and sites until the owner pays a fee to regain access. Many websites, particularly e-commerce sites, are also at high risk of being the victims of brute-force attacks, where hackers use varying methods to gain passwords, access the site and steal the information stored within. This is particularly detrimental for online shops as they handle credit card information and other highly personal data.
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