As quoted on IT proportal “Cybersecurity continues to be the number one “external concern” for CEOs, regardless of their industry. That’s because the number of cyberattacks is increasing every year –with hackers attempting to break into a computer “every 39 seconds on average.” The annual costs of these attacks is expected to reach an incredible $6 trillion by 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. As a result of this data privacy crisis, major corporations are boosting internal investments in cybersecurity and collaborating with South American software development firms to protect their customer’s data. Looking forward, 2020 promises to be the year when several cybersecurity trends converge. Companies will continue to increase their cybersecurity budgets in order to thwart malicious actors and respond to recent data privacy legislation in Europe and parts of the United States”.
One of the biggest threat to cyber security for most organisations is from internal employees clicking on a link simply because they lack knowledge to know any better. We have recently partnered with a company called KnowB4. They are the world’s most popular integrated platform for security awareness training combined with simulated phishing attacks. With some of our clients when we first ran a test 30-40% clicked on malicious links. After just a few training modules when we ran similar tests 2-3 months later it had dropped to below 2% opening those phishing scams. It’s a great tool with immediate impact to help improve your overall cyber security.
