Developing a solid cyber risk culture and technical files are good company moves right off the bat. The tighter and more secure the defense is up front, the easier it is and more benefits on the back end. Frist of all, strong cybersecurity practices will improve the company’s brand and the ability for growth or new partners/clients. It is believed many corporate leaders think a strong cybersecurity program will increase a company’s speed and profitability to market.
The tools in place with an organization are essential, but it is even more crucial for information to be secured and the ways of which it is managed. Rather focusing on only one risk and ensuring everything is one hundred percent for it, companies would benefit more so planning for an all-inclusive, all hands approach for cybersecurity plans. Knowing what risks such business is dealing with can help effectively plan for what is necessary. For example, the top security threats typically are malware, phasing, ransomware, files less attacks and human errors. Breaking down possible cost hits are usually pretty intense and extravagant. The average cost to malware breaches or issues sits around 2.4 million dollars according to research done by Accenture. Typically, it could take nearly fifty days for a business to identify, address, patch, and repair affected systems. Phishing a single lost or stolen account can cost nearly 200 dollars or more. This does not even account for the possible thousands or more stolen records. There is a solid chance that if one record/account has been stolen, the person on the other end did not stop there and took even more. Ransomware can be extremely destructive between the events occurring, system downtime, lost or damaged data, patching systems, and training personnel in the end on handling and spotting it sooner. Such ransomware attacks to business could cost upwards of 11.5 million dollars. Fileless attacks could cost nearly 5 million if they are fully contained. Human error accounts for nearly twenty seven percent of data breaches and could cost almost 150 dollars per compromised data record, which can take a substantial amount of time to recover and reconcile.