Cyberattacks are on the rise. Hackers are uniting into collectives that are partially sponsored by terrorists and antagonistic Governments to the United States. They are bent on one thing: breaking into business networks, confiscating their data and extorting those businesses into paying them large sums of money to get access to their data back.
The Governments support the hackers because they want to destabilize American, Canadian, and European businesses. The hackers are in it for the money.
And they can make a lot of money! Hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.
It’s outrageous that these criminals can perpetrate these crimes and there are no law enforcement officials who can protect you. You must defend yourself. You must be concerned about this whether you like it or not.
Luckily, a professional Managed Service Provider / IT Support company, like us at Attain Technology, can protect you and keep you safe.
Our mission is to put the hackers out of business and ensure that none of our clients ever pay a ransom. I’m sure you don’t have $40,000 – $400,000 – $4,000,000 in the bank just lying around waiting for a group of hackers to shake you down and blackmail you into paying them to get access to your business data back.
Plus, most of the time, even if you do pay, you won’t get access to your data back. But if you do pay, and they happen to let you have your data back, the hackers are so unscrupulous they will attack you again the next day because they know how and you haven’t locked them out yet.
That’s why you need to be protected and have a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan in place before they attack you.
The Cybersecurity Vulnerability Quiz
Now that you understand the true risk to your business that hackers represent, you need to identify your level of protection and understand just how vulnerable you are.
That’s why we’ve put together a Cybersecurity Vulnerability Quiz that helps you judge how protected you are.
With just 14 questions (3 minutes), you can determine your level of protection and find out where you are weak and where you are strong.
The questions cover a range of different topics like phishing, antivirus, passwords, firewalls, data encryption, monitoring, multi-factor authentication and more.
At the end, you are graded on your responses and given insight into your level of protection.
Of course, if you find obvious security flaws, you can schedule a construction technology audit with us where we will review your current security plan and identify any holes or weaknesses we find. If we find items you need to be aware of, we will make recommendations.
Remember, our goal and mission is to put the hackers out of business and ensure no one ever has to pay a ransom again.
Running a business is hard enough. You don’t need criminals trying to shut your business down and extract money from you and blackmail you into paying so you can get back to work.
Additional Cybersecurity Information
In addition to the cybersecurity vulnerability quiz, we’ve put together a guide titled “How Vulnerable Are You to A Cyberattack?” that gives you an extended description of each question and cover the reasons why it is important.
The quiz and the guide work together to give you a clear picture of the need for a strong cybersecurity posture and help you identify where you need to focus your attention.
In addition to the guide, we have a webinar on this topic planned which will give you further information about the seriousness of this topic and what you can do to protect yourself.
Here are the links to the cybersecurity materials we have prepared for you:
Assess your level of protection with our Cybersecurity Vulnerability Quiz.
Enhance your insight and understand your weaknesses with our guide, “How Vulnerable Are You to A Cyberattack?”
Deepen your knowledge and learn the importance of protecting yourself now on our webinar, “Are You Vulnerable to Cyberattack?”
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