Monthly Archives: December 2019

By | December 24, 2019

The global average cost of a data breach is $3.9 million across SMBs

For most businesses this is sum is crippling – not only monetarily but in reputation. For public companies, the cost is much greater since more is at stake, on average a data breach at a publicly traded company would...

By | December 24, 2019

43% of cyber-attacks target small business

Small organizations (those with fewer than 500 employees) spend an average of $7.68 million per incident.

By | December 24, 2019

Hackers attack organisations every 39 seconds

A Clark School study at the University of Maryland is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access— every 39 seconds on average, affecting one in three Americans every year...

By | December 24, 2019

More than 77% of organizations do not have a Cyber Security Incident Response plan

What’s worse? An estimated 54% of companies say they have experienced one or more attacks in the last 12 months.

By | December 24, 2019

Since COVID-19, there has been 300% increase in reported cybercrimes

As if a pandemic wasn’t scary enough, hackers leveraged the opportunity to attack vulnerable networks as office work moved to personal homes. As of this summer, they recorded 12,377 Covid-related scams.