{"id":294,"date":"2022-12-08T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/?p=294"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:47:57","slug":"journal-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/2022\/12\/08\/journal-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal #7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having cybersecurity is an important part of a business and protecting that business. The question is how much does it cost and what are the benefits to developing a cybersecurity program? Well let&#8217;s get into it. Let&#8217;s start with the benefits. Having a cybersecurity program is essential to a business. Any business with some sort of technology which most, if not all, businesses are using technology. A benefit of having this is obviously protection. Having that business&#8217;s data, networking, and internal components protected is something that every business needs to have. Without these protections, a business will struggle and near fail because they&#8217;re information and data isn&#8217;t being protected and there are malicious people out there who want to cause harm. Another benefit of having a cybersecurity program is having is the businesses reputation protected. If a company has a poor cybersecurity program, their business partners or potential business partners aren&#8217;t going to want to do business with them because their data and information won&#8217;t be protected in turn, losing that business money and stopping the business from progressing. Another benefit of having a cybersecurity program is that it improves production. A part of that is remote work. Without having a cybersecurity program, remote work would be unbeneficial because of the risks involved. If there weren&#8217;t any cybersecurity posture, an attacker could easily infiltrate a businesses network and cause harm. Not having a cybersecurity program would make productivity go down in a big way for this business. Now the costs for having a cybersecurity program aren&#8217;t too too hefty for a company. An average cost for having a cybersecurity program is around 10% of a businesses IT budget. So if a company&#8217;s IT budget is about $1 million, the budget for a cybersecurity budget of $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designrush.com\/agency\/cybersecurity\/trends\/benefits-of-cybersecurity\">https:\/\/www.designrush.com\/agency\/cybersecurity\/trends\/benefits-of-cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantic-it.net\/cybersecurity-costs-for-small-businesses\/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20companies%20spend%20around,spend%20%24300%2C000%20on%20cybersecurity%20costs.\">https:\/\/www.atlantic-it.net\/cybersecurity-costs-for-small-businesses\/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20companies%20spend%20around,spend%20%24300%2C000%20on%20cybersecurity%20costs.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having cybersecurity is an important part of a business and protecting that business. The question is how much does it cost and what are the benefits to developing a cybersecurity program? Well let&#8217;s get into it. Let&#8217;s start with the benefits. Having a cybersecurity program is essential to a business. Any business with some sort&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/2022\/12\/08\/journal-7\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ehorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}