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You read about it all the time — headline-grabbing data breeches at big companies that compromise millions of customers and suppliers, exposing valuable personal and financial data. The result is ruined credit, tattered corporate reputations and compromised identities.

Here is what you don’t read about every day — data breeches at small and midsize companies. Not because they don’t happen — they do — but because they just don’t capture the headlines. But breeches at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are actually more common than the splashy, headline-grabbing variety.

If you are running an SMB, you are a direct target for an attack. Small and midsize firms fall victim to the vast majority of data breaches because they tend to:

• Lack sufficient security measures and trained personnel
• Hold data that’s valuable to hackers (e.g., credit card numbers, protected health information)
• Neglect to use an offsite source or third-party service to back up their files or data, making them vulnerable to ransomware
• Connect to the supply chain of a larger company, and can be leveraged to break in

Our most recent report – a research collaboration with Cisco and the National Center for the Middle Market – is based on data from 1,377 CEOs of small and midsize businesses that tell a similar story. Sixty-two percent of our respondents said that their firms don’t have an up-to-date or active cybersecurity strategy–or any strategy at all. And that’s a major problem, given that the cost of a cyberattack can be high enough to put a company out of business; according to the National Cyber Security Alliance 60 percent of small and midsized businesses that are hacked go out of business within six months.

If you’re among these CEOs, it’s time to make a change. Follow these four steps to start building a cybersecurity strategy that keeps hackers out of 노 커미션 바카라 business.

1. Determine 노 커미션 바카라 company’s current cybersecurity status.

Bring together members of 노 커미션 바카라 senior leadership team, board of directors and investors to conduct an informal audit of the business. Get a sense for the level of security you have today.

Questions to ask: Is anyone in charge of our cybersecurity? What defenses do we already have in place? Is our strategy comprehensive and coordinated? If not can we pinpoint our weak spots?

2. Identify the key person accountable for 노 커미션 바카라 cybersecurity.

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Questions to ask: Who should be responsible for our cybersecurity? What process can we implement to ensure accountability? How can we communicate and increase awareness about cybersecurity in our different departments and teams?

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Questions to ask: What are the most important assets we need to protect? Customer data? Intellectual property? Employee records? Can we measure the degree of confidentiality, integrity, availability and safety of our most critical assets?

4. Decide what business capabilities and cybersecurity measures you want to manage yourself versus outsourcing.

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Questions to ask: What aspects of our business–such as order fulfillment–should we handle internally versus outsourcing to a third party (e.g., Amazon, Cisco, Google)? Should we outsource our cybersecurity to a third-party service? Should we use a fractional CIO model and seek out cybersecurity consulting? Or should we handle the entire process ourselves?

The best defense is a good offense.  Make it a priority to protect 노 커미션 바카라 data for the benefit of 노 커미션 바카라 employees, 노 커미션 바카라 customers and the long-term health of 노 커미션 바카라 business.