{"id":36782,"date":"2019-10-31T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=36782"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:19:22","slug":"data-breaches-devastate-small-businesses-in-2019-with-10-percent-closing-their-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2019\/10\/data-breaches-devastate-small-businesses-in-2019-with-10-percent-closing-their-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Breaches Devastate Small Businesses in 2019 with 10 Percent Closing Their Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new report from the National Cyber Security Alliance sheds some light on how prepared small- and medium-size businesses are and what the aftermath of a data breach really looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/databreach.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36783\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When 1,000 small business owners open up to talk about cybersecurity, it\u2019s probably a good idea for every other small business to take note. In a just-released report on the state of cybercrime in small businesses by the NCSA, the findings about just how poorly small businesses are able to withstand a data breach is truly shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data, the percentage of small businesses that have experienced a data breach in the last 12 months ranges from 11 percent in the very small business, to 44 percent in midsized businesses, with 28% as the average. Of these businesses, this was the outcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>69 percent were offline for a limited time <\/li><li>37 percent of businesses suffer a financial loss <\/li><li>25 percent file for bankruptcy <\/li><li>10 percent go completely out of business<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With such destructive results, surely the SMB is prepared, right? According to the data, nearly half of businesses (46%) feel they are prepared to respond to an incident, but \u2013 clearly \u2013 with the outcomes listed above, it\u2019s evident that SMBs are unprepared to prevent a data breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is 83 percent of SMBs put some kind of security awareness training in place, in most cases (69 percent) it\u2019s less than 8 hours annually. SMB organizations wanting to avoid data breaches are on the right path; just not far enough along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security Awareness Training is an effective way to reduce the risk of successful phishing attacks, as 96% of data breaches start with an email attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Educating users on what to look for, methods and tactics used, and the importance of their role in the organization\u2019s security all will help keep SMBs secure and operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the National Cyber Security Alliance sheds some light on how prepared small- and medium-size businesses are and what the aftermath of a data breach really looks like. When 1,000 small business owners open up to talk about cybersecurity, it\u2019s probably a good idea for every other small business to take note. In a just-released report on the state of cybercrime in small businesses by the NCSA, the findings about just how poorly small businesses are able to withstand a data breach is truly shocking. According to the data, the percentage of small businesses that have experienced a data breach in the last 12 months ranges from 11 percent in the very small business, to 44 percent in midsized businesses, with 28% as the average. Of these businesses, this was the outcome: 69 percent were offline for a limited time 37 percent of businesses suffer a financial loss 25 percent file for bankruptcy 10 percent go completely out of business With such destructive results, surely the SMB is prepared, right? According to the data, nearly half of businesses (46%) feel they are prepared to respond to an incident, but \u2013 clearly \u2013 with the outcomes listed above, it\u2019s evident that SMBs are unprepared to prevent a data breach. The good news is 83 percent of SMBs put some kind of security awareness training in place, in most cases (69 percent) it\u2019s less than 8 hours annually. SMB organizations wanting to avoid data breaches are on the right path; just not far enough along with it. Security Awareness Training is an effective way to reduce the risk of successful phishing attacks, as 96% of data breaches start with an email attack. Educating users on what to look for, methods and tactics used, and the importance of their role in the organization\u2019s security all will help keep SMBs secure and operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":36783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,1650,82,3371,3560,1638],"tags":[2832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36784,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782\/revisions\/36784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}