Small and medium-sized enterprises not be attractive enough to hackers? That may have been true in the past, but it is certainly not these days. Medium-sized and small businesses also have valuable data. Think of data that you would rather not have on the streets. Or getting into the hands of the competition. Customer data, for example. Production specifications or ideas for tapping new markets.
Encrypting your valuable data or taking your systems down directly impacts your business processes, and therefore your revenue. Hackers know this. That is why SMEs are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals.
Of course you invest in secure IT systems. But that is no longer enough. In fact, 90% of cyber attacks turn out to be caused by an employee's unsafe online behaviour.
Employees who know what safe online behaviour is, and obviously do it, minimise the chances of a successful cyber attack.
Cyber security awareness can therefore prevent a lot of misery (and costs...).
The remediation costs of a data breach or ransomware attack are many times higher. And additional reputational damage to your organisation is often prohibitive.