Does My Organization Need to Worry About Data Breaches?

Regardless of the size of your organization, you should be worried about and doing your best to prevent data breaches.

When data breaches make the news, it’s typically because it occured at a large multinational such as Yahoo, Google or Equifax. In fact, Yahoo has been the victim of many of the world’s biggest data breaches. This can give small businesses a false sense of security, in reality small businesses are as much of a target of data breaches as large corporations.

Even small businesses possess valuable data that can be the target of cyber criminals:

• Employee personally identifiable information (PII) like birthdates, social security numbers and full names
• Client names, e-pos adresse, phone numbers and passwords
• Banking information including account and routing numbers
• Credit card numbers

While it’s true security breaches at large organizations net cybercriminals a higher payoff, klein besighede is geneig om minder sekuriteitsprotokolle te hê en geen sekuriteitspan in plek nie, making them easier targets.

Die gemiddelde koste van 'n data-oortreding by klein tot middelgrootte ondernemings is $86,500 in verhalingsuitgawes (1). Vir ondernemings, hierdie getal styg tot $861,000 (2). Volgens ander berigte, hierdie nommer is meer soos $3.92 miljoen.(4)