Infogressive, Inc.

Nearly every organization that has ~50 employees or more has an accountant and a lawyer on staff, or those that don’t, certainly retain the services of them.  Yet even with all of the breaches in main stream media, cybersecurity professionals are still having to explain why we’re needed before we get to the important stuff, how to improve the defenses or correct their weaknesses.

This is particularly a problem in my opinion with small/medium businesses, especially community banks.  They pay accountants and lawyers to keep their books in order and to keep them out of court, yet they don’t hire any security experts to protect their most important assets, their customers and their money.  If and when electronic breaches occur they lose customers and money.  We see them hiring a lot of independent “computer people” and organizations that target them because they know they have regulatory requirements.  It is rare that either the independent consultant or the organizations that purely target community banks have the knowledge and expertise to properly secure banks against the constant barrage of attacks they face.

Granted I’m a bit biased, but I would encourage more small organizations to ask to seek the credentials and experience of the individuals they are paying for their cybersecurity services.  After all, would you hire an accountant without a degree or without the proper training?  Would you hire a lawyer straight out of law school to represent you in an important case?

Protecting your electronic assets is as important as ever.  All of us continue to become more dependent on computers and the Internet, hire people that understand how to protect your business.  Ben Franklin’s saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” definitely applies to cybersecurity.