As a business leader, you have to do what you can to ensure that your business information is safe. There is a reason that cybersecurity is in the spotlight right now and with the rise of data and digital services becoming more vulnerable, cybersecurity is going to continue to have a light shone down on it. Every new piece of digital data out there represents a newly connected system. For every system that’s been connected digitally, there is someone out there who wants to break into them.
Businesses are especially vulnerable to this, and hackers are becoming more and more intelligent with it. Cybersecurity is, therefore, a must for a business owner to focus on. You should be considering how secure your digital data is, and with IT support, you can ensure it. There is going to be a high demand for your business offering, but if you have hackers attacking you every time you create something new, you’re going to find it tough to keep up with your customers’ confidence. So, here are the reasons cybersecurity should be most important to your business!
1 | Everyone is vulnerable. Every single business – no matter their size – is vulnerable to being hacked digitally. Your data is going to be out there for all to see, and anyone who has the ability to get online and hack a system will try to. Your business is going to have external employees and outsourced resources, too, and that means that you need to think about what is being shared and how your customers feel about it!
2 | Cybercrime isn’t going anywhere. It doesn’t matter what you think about your digital information, cyberattacks continue to be a common factor. There are studies that show that cyber attempts are being made at least once a minute. Almost 87% of businesses have faced a cyberattack that can exploit known systems. Globally, hackers are out there performing attacks where they can and you don’t want them finding their way into your business, too.
3 | It’s an issue of money. The economic impact of cybercrime is huge, especially for the larger enterprises that have been attacked. You may not have a larger business, but you need to think about how much of your business could be destroyed by the actions of cybercrime. No business wants to be drained of their finances or their confidence from their customers but this is a risk that comes from not protecting your digital data.
4 | Your customers lose their privacy without it. If you don’t have the right cybersecurity protections in place, your business is going to fail because of the fact that privacy is going to be lost. You need your customers to maintain that your business is the right one to use and the way to do that is with assurances that you put their wellbeing and their privacy first.
Cybersecurity is an important piece of the business puzzle, and with it, you can ensure that you thrive!
Thank you so much for reading! – xo N
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this is a contributed post.
New Lune 
Hi NL 🙂
it’s interesting that you and I seem to be on the same wavelength at the moment — see e.g.
IMHO every login opens another gateway for hackers, so the less logins, the more secure (yet also the more significant each leftover login becomes).
In the article above, I speculate about some of the reasons why the warning messages commonly seen seem so misleading.
Whenever someone tries to tell you reading something is dangerous, I think it makes sense to think about why they are telling you that.
🙂 Norbert
Thank you for linking the article! And as always, thank you so much for reading 😊