SMB cyber-readiness: What makes or breaks it
“Fix the roof while the sun is shining.”
– proverb
Cybersecurity has a familiar way of saying the storm will come: “a breach is a matter of when, not if.” While the industry’s sternest maxim has probably never been more true, it sometimes feels as though it’s also lost some of its edge over the years. While everyone agrees that there could be a ‘cloud on the horizon,’ will they also hurry to draft or review their IT contingency plan or commit to a level of operational pain that their company can endure while under attack?
To be sure, a cyber-incident won’t give anyone a date by which to prepare. Organizations can only assume that it’s coming – eventually, in some form, and from some direction. But that realization alone clearly doesn’t prepare them to withstand an attack. A warning only counts when it spurs action, and the companies with...
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