Are You Small Enough to Fail? How Hacks and Incursions Affect Small Business

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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In case you haven’t noticed, the threat of your information being breached has commonly been considered a not so much “if” but “when” kind of scenario. “How” it will happen and “what” damage it will do is anyone’s guess.

Antiquated protection practices can certainly be to blame at some organizations, making those of us with modern techniques and tools in place feel a false sense of superiority. Even large government agencies--supposedly protected by elaborate encryption processes and massive infrastructures of anti-virus/anti-hacker/anti-everything--can be made the victim, so why should we feel so secure? If you are a small enough organization, you may feel that you can escape the attention of these attacks, but that means creating a firm with a lackluster vision for growth and prosperity.

The truth is, even small companies are not beneath the notice of data crooks--some statistics even show that about half of small businesses are targeted by cyber attacks. Some of this is due to the manner in which companies look for techniques in which to improve operations and reduce costs (hosted/online applications, cloud operations, etc.), thereby exposing their presence and vulnerability. Even everyday functions carried out by organizations rely heavily on the use of the internet for things like email, market research…

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