Ed Vaizey, the Minister for the Digital Economy, has once again highlighted the proportion of businesses which have fallen victim to cyber breaches in the last year (74 percent of small businesses and 90 percent of major business). Those proportions show no sign of decreasing. Some think this is in part due to the sophistication of attackers, but in reality a very significant proportion of breaches do not result from this and could be prevented.
Given the figures of how many businesses are compromised, every business should be taking time to prepare for how they will respond to a discovered breach. The reality is that if a substantial breach is discovered, a business will be firefighting on many fronts to deal with what could be a business critical issue. Getting the first 72-96 hours right is crucial.
A significant number of information security breaches can be avoided by relatively basic information security good practice. The government has published a number of guides which are a good starting point for many businesses. The sheer number of businesses that the figures show may have already suffered a breach, most of which don’t know it yet, shows there’s a lot of work still to do for a very large number of businesses on information security.
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