{"id":551,"date":"2023-06-13T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:15:52","slug":"how-prepared-are-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-against-cyberthreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/how-prepared-are-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-against-cyberthreats\/","title":{"rendered":"How Prepared Are Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Against Cyberthreats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hacker-1944688_1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7394\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/crime-courts\/2019\/04\/482208\/rm676-million-lost-cyber-crimes-q1-2019\">RM67.6 million<\/a>&nbsp;was lost to cybercrimes in Q1 2019? Cyber criminals are aggressive and the disastrous tactics employed can often leave business owners in a state of distressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much damage can a cyberattack impose to small and medium-sized businesses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Direct:&nbsp;<\/strong>Financial losses caused by cybersecurity incident \u2013 this includes loss of productivity, fines, remediation cost, etc;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Indirect:<\/strong>&nbsp;The opportunity cost to the organization thanks to damaged reputation and loss of customers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Induced:<\/strong>&nbsp;The impact of cyber breach to the broader ecosystem, such as the decrease in consumer spending<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While small and medium-sized businesses key decision makers may feel they are less at risk, cyber criminals turn to larger businesses to make a strike. This is not true as they are equally vulnerable. Where the are opportunties, cyber criminals will seek to exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small and medium-sized businesses need to fortify their defenses against cyberthreats as any unwanted incidents can result in regrettable outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that&nbsp;RM67.6 million&nbsp;was lost to cybercrimes in Q1 2019? Cyber criminals are aggressive and the disastrous tactics employed can often leave business owners in a state of distressed. How much damage can a cyberattack impose to small and medium-sized businesses? While small and medium-sized businesses key decision makers may feel they are less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info-trek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}