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How Hackable Is Your Business?

Written by Acropolis | Nov 19, 2021 9:54:16 PM
  • They may be better targets for financial gain than individuals

  • They may have more valuable information, such as personal information and employee data, than individuals.

  • Some businesses might not maintain up-to-date cybersecurity for their data.

  • 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.