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Small business (SMB) owners know the importance of being prepared. Predicting the future is har
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While 60% of small businesses have been a victim of cybercrime, most won’t buy any small avg.com/activatio nproducts in the upcoming financial year www.avg.com/activation. So, www.avg.com/activateconsidering the multiple Install Avg With License Number activation  that a busine ss offers to hackers, why is the cost of a cyberattack not a priority for SMBs?

The answer may li e in the lack of resource in avg.com/retail small business. While large organizations often have entire IT departments, start-ups and medium-sized www.avg.com/activation businesses usually  www.avg.com/activate have other priorities – from cash flow to winning new business. So, when cash is tight, why fork Install Avg With License Number activation out avg.com/activation on cyber protection?

This article will answer that question.

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Industry experts Cybersecurity Ventures have that cybercrime will cost $6 trilli avg.com/activationon a year by 2021. This figure may sound alarming, but many SMBs fall victim to the www.avg.com/activation idea that ‘we’re too small to be targeted’. The truth is that small business avg.com/retail targeted, and usually for the very reason that they are less protected than larger companies and therefore an easy target.

www.avg.com/activation conducted by the Federation  Install Avg With License Number activation  of Small Businesses (FSB) in 2016 showed that, on average, a small business will be attacked four times every two years, costing them £3000 ($4,200).

Ransomware is an attack that holds sensitive data hostage until a payment is made – and it’s on the rise. By 2019, a business will fall victim to a ransomware  avg.com/retail attack Install Avg With License Number activation every   compared to every 40 seconds in 2016 www.avg.com/activate. The average ransom asked for is about £3,000 per user ($4,200), and almost half the avg.com/activation ransomware attacks in 2016 spread to at least 20 other users. If your company has 20 staff, that’s a hefty £60,000 you could be coughing up.

The cost of an attack to a business is not only immediate, it could have a long-term effect on your business. Do consumers or clients want their information to Install Avg With License Number activation be www.avg.com/activate held by a company that has had a data breach? According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, six out of 10 small businesses www.avg.com/activation six months after a cyberattack.

Your employees also may have something to say. Hackers behind a avg.com/activationin early 2017 targeted businesses and requested employee’s personal tax information be sent to them. The attack was clever – and made to look like Install Avg With License Number activation  it was from an executive or official. More than 120,000 employee tax forms were handed over. Phishing attacks are the most common form of cyberattack, affecting half of small businesses.

 However, most cybersecurity companies offer www.avg.com/activation products specifically developed for small businesses, alongside their consumer and big business Install Avg With License Number activation www.avg.com/activate products avg.com/retail. Consumer versions are consistently priced per device, no matter how many you buy, whereas www.avg.com/activation packages offer cost effective scaling options for cheaper buying in bulk.

Business protection ranges in price depending on the features and quality of the antivirus software. For example, you can expect to pay about £30-£40 ($42-$56) per year for business antivirus protection on one computer. The cost per computer avg.com/activation then reduces to around £20 per device as you scale to cover more PCs. So, if you have a business with Install Avg With License Number activation www.avg.com/activation eight avg.com/retail computers,www.avg.com/activate you can expect to pay about £160 ($222) per year. In contrast, buying premium consumer licenses would cost upwards of £550 ($763.)

Most standard licenses last between one and three years and the best antivirus usually includes internet security, a firewall and remote management. Basic offerings may be advertised for free, but always check the features avg.com/retail included in the Install Avg With License Number activation free www.avg.com/activation version as this is unlikely to offer the level of protection necessary to fully protect your business.

Cyberattack

A colleague receives an email with a link which, avg.com/activation when clicked, downloads a virus that impersonates email accounts of the staff in your business. avg.com/retail Over the next few weeks, unbeknownst to you, the hacker responsible for the Install Avg With License Number activation  virus siphons information that allows them to access your business bank accounts and customer database www.avg.com/activate avg.com/activation.

Over the next week, the criminals steal almost £400,000 from your account (similar to the case of construction firm www.avg.com/activatio nwho lost $545,000 and  avg.com/retail were reimbursed less than half of this by the bank) and corrupt avg.com/activation your customer database (as happens in a www.avg.com/activation

When you discover the attack Install Avg With License Number activation , you must stop operating avg.com/retail immediately to investigate the incident and check for further breaches. The loss in avg.com/activation revenue is about £30,000.www.avg.com/activate

After the attack, the team works extra hours contacting customers to explain the situation and ensure the details stored on them are correct. This costs www.avg.com/activation the business about £5,000 in Install Avg With License Number activation  additional working hours and other admin costs. At www.avg.com/activate the avg.com/retail same time, a potentially lucrative business client pulls out as they are concerned about their data being compromised. You lose £6,800 from the collapse of this deal.

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