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They may be better targets for financial gain than individuals
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They may have more valuable information, such as personal information and employee data, than individuals.
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Some businesses might not maintain up-to-date cybersecurity for their data.
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Their employees often are easy targets for phishing emails.
HACKING/CYBERCRIME STATS
Cybercrime has increased by 600% since the COVID-19 pandemic.
MacOS malware has grown by 165% in the past year.
Email is used to deliver 92% of malware.
Of information security professionals, 50% say their companies are unprepared to resist a ransomware attack.
One-third of businesses attacked by malware took at least a week to recover their data.
Three in four companies that become infected by malware had up-to-date endpoint protection.
The average business spends $133,000 on a ransomware attack.
Ransomware costs companies more than $75 billion every year.
A business will be the victim of ransomware every 11 seconds this year.
Newly hired employees present the most risk from socially engineered attacks such as phishing.
Of IT professionals, 56% name targeted phishing as their top threat to security.
Users open 30% of phishing messages; 12% of them wind up clicking on the malicious link or attachment.
Ransomware attacks are increasing by more than 350% every year.
Of small businesses, 47% have had at least one cyberattack in the last year; 44% of those experienced two to four attacks.
Seven in 10 businesses are not prepared to address a cyberattack.
Two-thirds of businesses with more than 500 users never ask their employees to change their passwords.
Two-thirds of small businesses say they are “very concerned” about cybersecurity.
Six out of 10 small businesses go under within six months of a cyberattack.