Small and medium-sized companies embrace digital transformation in order to cut operating costs, boost employee productivity and gain a better insight into customer behavior. However, they tend to underestimate the importance of cybersecurity… and end up paying ransoms to hackers due to weak defense systems. Why is cybersecurity important and how to protect your enterprise IT infrastructure?

1. The Importance of
Cybersecurity in 2017

2. Cybercrime is now a $ 600 billion
opportunity. It’s a well-organized business
affecting both IT corporations and small
companies. In fact, hackers consider small
and medium-sized businesses an easier
target due to weak defense systems.
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3. THESE ARE CYBERCRIME TOP TARGETS
24.8
11.9
9.3
4.2 4.1 3.4 3.2
1.9
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
(%)
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4. SOME SHOCKING CYBERSECURITY STATS…
• Every day, 200 thousand new malware samples
are captured;
• Through 2016, 4 thousand ransomware attacks
took place on a daily basis;
• Over 70% of companies affected by ransomware
paid hackers to regain access to customer
records last year. 20% of those had to pay over $
40 thousand;
• More than 59% of infections came from emails.
78% of employees clicked on embedded links
despite being aware of security risks.
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5. YET, CYBERSECURITY THREATS ARE
IGNORED
52
31 31
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
No changes planned
Making changes to security
plans
Not sure
Business Security Strategy for 2017
(% of companies surveyed)
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6. TOP CAUSES OF ATTACKS & DATA BREACHES
48
41
35
27
5
32
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Employee
negligence
3rd-party
mistakes
System error Hacker
attacks
Malicious
insider
Unidentified
(%)
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7. COMMON TYPES OF BUSINESS
CYBERATTACKS
49
43
35
26 25
21
11
2
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
(%)
In 2017, ransomware attacks are expected to grow by 250%,
causing over $ 5 billion in damage
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8. A typical cyberattack victim
is denied access to computers within a
business network & file servers.
Each hour of downtime will cost your small
business over $ 8 thousand. Unless you
consult experienced software developers &
treat cybersecurity seriously, tomorrow
cybercrime might affect you.
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9. HERE’S HOW TO SECURE YOUR IT
INFRASTRUCTURE (pt. 1)
• Create a corporate security policy regarding
acceptable use, password generation and
defenses against social engineering (and make
sure your employees adhere to it!);
• Encrypt & backup business data (copy of
backup data should be kept off-premises);
• Conduct employee screening to detect
malicious insiders;
• Standardize security protocols to address the
Bring Your Own Device challenge;
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10. HERE’S HOW TO SECURE YOUR IT
INFRASTRUCTURE (pt. 2)
• Maintain security patches and simplify
firmware updates (cybercriminals always look
for vulnerabilities and come up with new hacking
techniques);
• Design software/hardware products with
security in mind (from choosing a secure
website CMS to implementing reliable IoT
messaging protocols, security should be your top
priority);
• Educate users (only 31% of IoT adopters, for
example, update to the latest version of
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11. The r-stylelab.com team urges you to
follow cybersecurity best practices,
keep detailed logs and report attacks to
authorities. Together we can make
cyberspace a safer place!
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SOURCES:
https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/01/cyber-security-statistics-small-business.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateharrison/2016/05/03/the-best-practices-in-cyber-security-
for-small-to-medium-sized-businesses/#653fc4697346
http://r-stylelab.com/company/blog/iot/iot-security-challenges-where-do-we-go-from-here
https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/01/cyber-security-statistics-small-business.html
https://www.observeit.com/blog/10-best-practices-cyber-security-2016
https://blog.barkly.com/cyber-security-statistics-2017
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