60% of small companies that suffer a cyber attack are out of business in 6months(denverpost.com)

14 pointsby upen10 anni fa4 comments

60% of small companies that suffer a cyber attack are out of business in 6months

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/23/small-companies-cyber-attack-out-of-business/

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So, 60% of small companies are out of businesses? I think not. What you need to ask yourself is: what is considered a 'cyber attack'? Is spam a cyber attack? What about phishing? What about your DNS provider being DDoSed? Ransomware? Macros? -- Companies are hit by these daily, and not only do they stay in business, many times (most?) they don't even notice the 'attack'. As it turns out, almost NO companies have ever shut down because of a breach. DigiNotar did, as did a couple others, but it's rare.

benologist10 anni fa

I think you're prematurely declaring victory - the severity and scale of attacks is still growing, and there's probably many companies out there with no or untested backup/disaster recovery plans, or one computer holding vital data, etc.

Not all the attacks can be shrugged off easily either - like the big one on Sony, or ransomware that's cost organizations $1,000s or $10,000s.

lsc10 anni fa

A cyber attack that is reported? I have cleaned up from at least hundreds of cyber attacks targeted at small businesses. Thousands if you count compromised workstations that never to our knowledge exfiltrated data. But only two or so of those were reported. And those two were big deals.

So sure, if by cyber attacks, you mean attacks reported to law enforcement, I buy it. Small companies usually see downside and no upside in getting the cops involved in attacks that they can get technical staff to deal with.

jandrese10 anni fa

What percentage of small companies not suffering a cyber attack are out of business in 6 months?

john11110 anni fa