What does the Talk Talk hack mean for UK SME Businesses?
Until recently the highest profile security breaches occurred within the US and there is a definite false sense that 'it wont happen here'. The Talk Talk security breach has now erased that myth.
For smaller businesses the myth pervades however that cyber attacks are targeted to organizations where the highest return will be realised and that smaller businesses relative obscurity protects them in some way from becoming a target.
Not so.
Highly organized cyber criminal organizations are using a whole number of technologies to disrupt and ransom small businesses on a daily basis across the UK, however low profile cases are not making the news, and some companies do not consider the financial impact of losing their customer information.
If your Finance person receives a spoofed email from you asking for a payment to be made to a new supplier, could this lead to a loss or would you have the internal procedures in place to ensure that this couldn't happen?
If a laptop using Windows XP was hacked , as it can no longer be updated and protected by Microsoft, and the hacker locked down your company finance folder would you have to pay the £1000 ransom to get your information back?
If your Windows 2003 server stored the information of a charity's end clients, a vulnerable group, was accessed what will the Information Commissioner be able to fine under the Data Protection Act?
If your laptop is hacked while using the free wireless in the airport business lounge, would you know?
Talk Talk have stated that their IT security was of the highest level, how confident are you of yours?
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