Introduction to Cyber Security

Specialists for Cyber Security Solutions in Auckland, NZ

In today’s fast-paced world, everything is changing at immense speed - especially when it comes to online technology. If you’re running a business, you need to be able to keep up with the pace, technology, and be ready to swerve quickly to avoid business and security risks as and when they arise.

As humans we tend to operate on the fallacy that if it can’t be seen, it can’t hurt us. This viewpoint is naïve at best, and dangerous at worst. As long as your business has a connection to the internet, you’re vulnerable to cyber-attacks and cyber crime.

Every minute, somewhere across the globe, a business like yours is being attacked. In some cases, hackers are locking companies out of their own systems and holding them to ransom. In others, hackers have compromised business email accounts and are sending internal messages to staff, pretending to be someone in management. These hackers are authorising the finance department to make payments for goods or services (real or fake), to be deposited into the criminals’ bank account.

Hackers are also targeting kids via social media, befriending them and gaining their trust, then embedding malware that the children unknowingly spread onto their home network. Then it’s only a matter of time before a family member inadvertently spreads the malware to their workplace, and before you know it the entire company network is infected.

Scenarios like these and much worse are happening everywhere, everyday, yet businesses are still slow to take action. In many cases, it isn’t until a cyber security breach has occurred that organisations take these threats seriously and start to look at how they can fortify their defences. Unfortunately, this is usually after the damage has been caused, and potentially thousands of dollars lost to cyber crime.

At Swerve, we understand the chaos, cost to business - both time and monetary - and sheer frustration of not being prepared for a cyber-attack that can strike at any time.

Over the past few years, cyber crimes targeting SMEs have significantly increased, helped along by the growth of cryptocurrencies, which enable anyone in the world to receive money without being identified or held accountable (e.g. ransomware). Almost half of all recorded cyber-attacks are against SMEs - they’re often the easiest targets, as larger organisations tend to have more robust IT security systems in place.

60% of small businesses close within 6 months of being hacked. Talk to us now about how we can stop your business from becoming a statistic.