“No businesses are trivial for cyber-attacks.”
We often see small businesses falling victim to cyber-attacks as a majority of them feel that they will not face any such incident and hence do not adopt a proactive approach when it comes to cybersecurity. As a result, the number of cyber-attacks targeting SMBs has seen consistent growth in the last few years. And, this is one of the reasons why around 60% of small organizations fail to recover and go out of business within six months after falling victim to cyber-attacks.
Common Security Strategies Followed by SMBs
SMBs often follow different cybersecurity practices to protect their confidential data and brand reputation, most of which are economical and simple to apply. As per the industry reports, some most common cybersecurity approaches followed by small businesses include the usage of strong passwords, implementation of data encryption techniques, limiting employee access to data, 2-factor authentication, etc.