Never have I been so compelled to help educate small businesses on the need for cybersecurity. On Saturday morning, March 6, 2021, I awoke to the Wall Street Journal article describing the Hafnium attack. This attack on Microsoft Exchange Servers was shared publicly on March 2nd with a patch for the issue released on Wednesday, March 3rd. This patch appeared to spark action from the hacker who ramped up and automated their attack for maximum scale. Other articles went on to say that 30,000 US businesses were compromised. The worst part- it was mostly small to medium sized businesses. Why was this? Because larger businesses, with stronger and more mature security practices, had the defenses in place to keep this bad actor from infiltrating their company while many small businesses did not.
Cybersecurity is for businesses of any size
Security maturity is not based on the size of the business. Recent research on…
 |
Posted by: Lisa Ashjian |
The post A plea to small businesses: Improve your security maturity appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.
March 13, 2021 at 10:00PM
0 comments:
Post a Comment