Every month should be Cyber Security Month!
FOR THE cyber security experts at Digicel Business, celebrating Cyber security Month should be an all-year-round activity, because that’s how seriously we take this business-critical aspect to our customers’ operations.
Let’s face it, cyber security is no longer an IT concern, it’s a boardroom problem. Globally, there’s a trend towards holding senior executives criminally liable for data breaches that can also cause significant loss of revenue and irreparable reputational damage.
Added to this is the rise of malware, phishing, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), and ransomware attacks that have crippled governments and private enterprises with traditionally weak IT defence strategies and procedures. People are by far are the biggest culprits when it comes to cyber security lapses that influence this barrage of attacks. We click on things we shouldn’t, we open questionable files, we don’t know how to identify scams, we love ‘special offers’, and we reuse passwords to access highly sensitive IT points. We are creatures of habit, so we need systems that understand this and then provide the most robust data protection.
DATA BREACHES COSTS
In 2019, data breaches in the USA, on average, cost businesses US$3.9 million. It therefore comes as no surprise that 60 per cent of small businesses shuttered within six months of being hacked. Estimates are that companies will spend over US$134 billion on cyber security in 2022. Even without readily available figures for Jamaican businesses, our experience shows that several public and private enterprises have had to bear the costs and disruptions associated with cyberattacks.
As Jamaica’s leading and most trusted ICT enabler for public and private enterprises of all sizes, our Digicel Protect service delivers proactive cyber security safeguards via Penetration Testing, Managed Firewall, Endpoint Protection and Breach Detection systems of the highest standard – all supported 24/7 by our highly experienced SOC team.
Digicel Business is ready to put our expertise to work for you. Drop us a line at DigicelBusinessCorporateRelations@digicelgroup.com or SalesInfo@digicelgroup.com to get started immediately with securing the cyber protection your business needs now.