Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

In today’s internet connected world, businesses like ours need to be conscious of cybersecurity. Cyber threats come in many different types such as espionage, sabotage, denial of service, and even just plain hacking. These types of attacks can negatively affect our business with things such as loss of data including customer credit info, theft of company secrets, disruption of our operations, and even blocking our customers from accessing our online presence. There are things that can be done to make us more cyber secure from attacks. We can hire a cybersecurity firm to come in and evaluate our operations and help us secure ourselves. We can upgrade our hardware such as our routers and servers to block cyber-attacks. We can even block off most internet access unless it is critical to the job in order to keep chances of attack low. Some of the advantages and disadvantages are:

Advantages

• ·         Protection against data theft

• ·         Protection against viruses or worms which can damage our systems

• ·         Gives our customers a sense of protection for their sensitive data

Disadvantages

• ·         Can be expensive

• ·         Routers can be complicated to get configured correctly

• ·         Have to constantly stay on top of new developments as attacks get more advanced daily

The impacts to our business are that if we do not take proactive actions concerning cybersecurity we are leaving ourselves open to attacks. This can directly affect our profits as we can lose customer confidence and even the customers themselves. I recommend quickly contacting a cybersecurity firm to help us transition to a more secure business model.