Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: What Makes Your Customers a Target and What Are the Threats?

For your customers, it’s easy to read the seemingly never-ending headlines about cybersecurity breaches at enterprise companies and be lulled into thinking that they aren’t a target. After all, hackers are after the massive storehouses of customer data or proprietary information held by leading companies, right?

Not necessarily.

While the biggest headline-grabbing hacks involve large companies, cybercriminals don’t discriminate by size. As a matter of fact, even some of the biggest data breaches of the 21st century started out at small businesses. One of the biggest cyberattacks of the last decade, hitting a major retailer in 2014, exposed the personal data of over 100 million accounts. The attackers didn’t break directly into the retailer’s system, though. The attack was instead carried out via the network of an HVAC contractor that worked with the chain.

Two thirds (66%) of companies with fewer than 1,000 employees have experienced a cyberattack, and 63% have experienced a breach. These statistics make it clear all businesses need a solid cybersecurity strategy. Be it ransomware, DDoS (distributed denial of service), phishing or some other threat, there is no shortage of cyber threats targeted at small businesses.

For a closer look at what makes your customers a target, and the threats they may be facing, read the full article on the Comcast Business Community.