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Playing it safe: Cybersecurity for small- to medium-sized businesses

More than 60% of small businesses are not in operation 6 months after a cyberattack.

By Bob Dietzel | Updated on January 25, 2018

Big companies like Target, Yahoo and Equifax are typically the unhappy recipients of big news coverage following data disasters. This is not surprising, given the size of the events. At Target, credit and debit card information or contact information for approximately 40 million people was purloined, leading to the resignations of both the CEO and CIO.

Three billion user accounts were affected during the Yahoo event, including the names, telephone numbers, email addresses, birth dates and telephone numbers of 500 million users.

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