Restoring a network often carries similar or even higher costs, meaning that there are no good solutions once an attack occurs. In a similar breach early this year, a station estimated that they lost up to $800,000 in revenue in addition to the $500,000 recovery charge. Consequently, it’s clear that every business needs to protect its bottom line by ensuring that its cybersecurity standards align with today’s emerging threat landscape.

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are often under pressure to juggle a tight budget. Many SMBs tend to allot smaller budgets for IT because SMB owners think of IT as a non-critical component. They'd rather allot bigger budgets for hiring operations staff and purchasing IT equipment.

Many businesses are wary of change — why fix something that isn’t broken, right? But just because things are smooth sailing now doesn’t mean that cracks won't soon show, particularly in components such as servers and data infrastructures.

The cloud addresses many computing issues, but some business owners think that migrating to the cloud will render their existing infrastructures useless.

In business, it is necessary to have a plan for everything, from research to marketing to personnel management. Strategic planning optimizes processes, maximizes resources, and improves the value of a company. This is why successful businesses have roadmaps for the different facets of their operations.

Disaster recovery planning is quickly becoming a standard across businesses in many different industries. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a comprehensive set of actions that a business intends to take in the event of a disaster, as a way to protect its ability to continue operations.