Cyber security isn’t just your IT department’s problem

The threat of cyber security attacks is real. Hackers operate all over the world, 24 hours a day. The simple fact is if your business has a computer connected to the internet, then it’s potentially vulnerable to a cyber attack.

By Mark Hope, managing director, StoneHouse Logic.

It isn’t just big businesses that are targeted either, although they’re the ones who tend to make the headlines.

It may seem like the stuff of Tom Cruise movies, but the threat of cyber security is a real one. And the potential risk it poses to your business is devastating.

In June this year, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) reported that 66% of small firms have been victims of cybercrime in the past two years. That’s cybercrime where confidential information was stolen, where systems and networks were taken down and where reputations and bottom lines were damaged, sometimes irrevocably.

Is your business safe?

At Stonehouse Logic we understand the threat that cyber crime poses to your business. We also understand that making sure you’re secure from hackers and from phishing attempts is not just the job of your IT department.

Instead, cybercrime is a threat that each and every person in your company must be aware of, and must know how to prevent.

The FSB reports, “Currently just a quarter of smaller businesses (24%) have a strict password policy, four per cent have a written plan of what to do if attacked online, and just two per cent have a recognised security standard such as ISO27001 or the Government’s Cyber Essentials scheme.” If you’d like to join that safe and secure quarter of small businesses, we’d be delighted to help you. Our cyber security expert is newly accredited with the government’s Cyber Essentials scheme.