While the cost can end up being pretty expensive depending how how much you want to invest in cyber security and how protected you want your information to be, the benefits of having some sort of cyber security program are great and can protect your company and employees. The first thing that you need to do is know what you want protected in your company. You are going to need things like firewalls, security protocols, backups, and training to your employees to ensure that they know how to properly handle and access their information. All of this and all the different options and companies that you can use all cost different prices. There are simple things that businesses can do for cheap, but that leaves their information a lot more vulnerable, so even though it cost more in the long run it is safer to spend more money on good cyber security. A good idea would be for companies to sit down with a cyber security company, or someone who is an expert in the field in order to tell them what they want accomplished, then they can discuss what will be needed and the cost of everything. Businesses who do not invest in any sort of cyber security are a lot less safe than companies who do because it leaves al, of their information, for themselves and their employees, easily accessible to come under some sort of threat and severely damage the company and/or its employees. The benefits include knowing that your information is secure and harder to access for people not allowed to, it gives businesses step by step protocols on what they need to do if there is a threat, it gives programs that contain backup information in case all of the information is manipulated with or destroyed, and it gives employees training on how to detect possible threats and know how to protect both themselves and the information that they work with.