Common Misconceptions
When it comes to IT security, IT services in Los Angeles can really help you safeguard your business. The size of your business doesn’t matter. Your profit margin doesn’t matter. Cybercriminals are looking for the shortest distance between two points. They’re looking for an easy way in. They have no reservations or discriminatory restrictions other than vulnerability. Following are several cyber security myths you should be aware of— doing so will help you and your business get a better idea of the environment that characterizes modern technology solutions and what you can do to protect yourself:
- Certain sized businesses are more vulnerable than others
- Cyber security is infallible
- Cyber security is too expensive
Size
When it comes to IT services in Los Angeles, the size of your business is no way to gauge your vulnerability. IT security solutions can help you be more or less vulnerable. If you’ve got IT security, you’re going to be less vulnerable. If you don’t, you’re going to be a sitting duck.
The DNC was hacked in 2016. Equifax was hacked in June of 2017. The WannaCry ransomware attack entered business networks through Server Message Block (SMB) ports and compromised operations internationally across 150+ countries. Are you noticing a common theme? Size didn’t play into any of those hacks.
What hackers do is take a sort of “shotgun” approach. With a shotgun, 100 BBs inside a shell spread out in a cloud. A shotgun can be pretty accurate and dangerous up to a little over a hundred feet or so, but after that, the BBs spread out too far and lose momentum, eventually becoming as harmless as a handful of thrown gravel. The idea of the shotgun is to increase the lethal radius of the shot, making it ideal for bird hunting.
With cybercriminals, they’re trying to do the same thing: increase the effective radius of “malware” shot. Whenever they can group multiple businesses into a hacking endeavor, they’re going to. What they do is search for the path of least resistance— they look for vulnerabilities in businesses, political organizations or computer systems of any size and try to infiltrate. In fact, smaller businesses are often at greater risk because they don’t consider themselves targets and are also trying to cut corners in terms of infrastructure by avoiding an effective security solution.
Infallibility
No cyber security solution anywhere on the planet is infallible because every IT application known to man has been designed by man, and humankind is imperfect. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. You need not just cyber security, but BDR or Backup and Data Recovery. This way, your systems aren’t compromised, just inconvenienced, even in the worst-case scenario.
Associated Cost
Cyber security isn’t too expensive for the same reason brakes aren’t too expensive: they’re fundamentally necessary. With IT, compromise and/or crash isn’t an “if” issue; it’s a “when” issue. You’re going to be compromised at some point. Going without cyber security will cost you more than having it.
Securing Your Business
IT services in Los Angeles through Advanced Networks can help your business source requisite IT security solutions. Contact us to fortify operations and ensure you’ve got options even in the worst-case scenario.
