Small and Medium Businesses in the Spotlight for Hackers

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Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

by Mike O’Malley

The question isn’t big or small business. It’s valuable or not valuable data.

There is a common misconception among both businesses and service providers and it goes something like this: Small and medium businesses are not the focus of hackers these days, this is a large enterprise problem. The myth goes on that hackers must be focused on large enterprises because that is where all the news stories are.

If you remember nothing else from this piece, the idea that hacking is exclusively targeting large enterprises, and that small and medium business have not been breached, is completely FALSE.

Hackers are equal opportunity criminals that are indifferent to the size of businesses. They are focused on who has the valuable IP and how do they obtain it. In fact, according to the Verizon 2017 Data Breach report, 61% of victims last year were small and medium businesses. So not only are hackers not exclusively targeting large businesses, the opposite is true. More often than not, victims today are small and medium businesses.

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