Common Misconceptions That Make Your Small Business a Prime Cyber Target
We have Norton, so we're good.
- Norton, AVG, McAfee, etc. do very little to protect your business. You need business-class Antivirus to be effective which has Endpoint Detection and Response security.
- It’s estimated that 500,000 new cyber threats are released per day, so there is no way that list-based AV can possibly keep up!
We're too small for hackers to notice us!
- Hackers use bots that don't care what size business you have. In fact, it’s completely the opposite: 85% of businesses that suffer a cyber-attack are small businesses!
We don't need active monitoring on our network.
- Active monitoring allows for early problem detection, meaning it protects your business by being a proactive approach to IT issues BEFORE they can become major problems.
Managed IT services are too expensive!
- Too expensive is a matter of perspective. If you get hit with ransomware and all your data is gone and your business can't function anymore, what would you do? Pay the average $1.85million dollar ransom?
- 60% of small businesses that suffer a cyber-attack go out of business within 6 months. Don’t let this be you!
Here’s how Managed IT Security should look:
