Small Companies Need To Take Cyber Security Seriously

There is a recent survey in the USA among all the small and medium companies which brought forward a rather worrying information. Among all the small companies, 1/3rd have been subjected to one type of cyber attack or the other. Even worse, more than half, almost 3 out of every 5 companies said, they were not even aware when it happened and discovered it a lot later. Finally, a vast majority of companies, nearly 70% of the companies said that they don't have a strategy ready to combat this threat.

Small companies have a few problems!!br0ken!! Firstly, these companies always believe that they are too small to be a lucrative target of the hackers. Hackers know this tendency very well and they exploit this as well. They steal the customer data from these less secure companies to attack the bigger companies.

Secondly, the small companies believe that investing in online security is an added expense which is again a perception which doesn't go well. It's an investment which would help the company for a long time to come. The companies should realise this really fast.  Then only cyber attack real time can be fended away.

Small companies or big companies, they both share another mindset that real time cyber security is the responsibility of the IT team. Yes, to an extent it is true but those guys need cooperation from the whole organisation. The CXO level people need to take more active interest in the IT security issues.