Cyber security is an essential part of every business. It is a complex and emotional subject, and solutions are far from black and white. Many government agencies and large corporates have had their systems compromised by hackers. Recently, a large US-based hosting organization declared a period earlier in the year when the customer websites they hosted were attacked an average of forty-four times an hour.
Every business needs to understand how many discrete electronic systems they have. They also need to understand their dependency on each of them and the costs they would face if their systems were compromised. These costs indicate what it is worth spending to protect the systems. Businesses also need to understand who would benefit from compromising them and how much they would stand to gain. This information is helpful because it indicates how much an attacker might spend trying to get into your systems.
The current international wave of cyber attacks on government departments appears to be driven by hostile government agencies seeking to damage or gain intelligence and criminal groups looking to lodge ransomware from which to profit. These groups can afford to invest billions of dollars into their attacking infrastructure. Their attack software continually tests computers connected to the internet to find weaknesses. They use automated software probes to see how far they can get when they do.
Other attackers may focus on talking to your employees, attempting to trick them into providing information to facilitate criminal access. This means your defense plans must include education to help staff know how they can be duped. Once an attacker has compromised one of your systems, they will try to gain access to other parts of your system. Therefore, your company should strategically isolate your systems from each other to avoid this. You must also have backup strategies to ensure an attacker cannot compromise your backups. And so the list of considerations goes on.
Hadwin Jones can assist you in all aspects of your cyber security strategy and implementation. Talk to your customer service representative in the first instance.