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Breach Fatigue: Implications for Your Business

by Effi Lipsman on January 22, 2019

It’s nearly impossible to listen to the news these days without coming across another story about a company getting breached and sensitive data leaking out. While the headlines might have you believe that breaches are limited to large enterprises (like BMO, British Airways, Facebook, Google, Marriott, Reddit, Equifax), small and medium-sized organizations are breached more and more. In fact, it is these smaller organizations across any vertical from municipalities, to local hospitals/clinics, to financials, that stand to lose the most in terms of brand equity, reputation, client trust, or loss of IP. This post is not a condemnation of organizations that are breached. In fact, as a cybersecurity company, we at IntelliGO understand that nearly any organization of any size can be breached at any time. This post is a caution that we, as a society, should continue to take breaches seriously, and not get desensitized to news of incidents… otherwise known as breach fatigue. Read on for how you can help.

At IntelliGO, we’ve been at the forefront of securing our clients and their brands for over a decade. We still remember the days where a major (or even minor) cyber breach meant a news cycle measured in weeks or months. What stands out are the numerous calls from organizations of all sizes asking for help to improve security and stay out of the headlines. With the plethora of cyber breaches dominating the news recently (including investigations of political election meddling), it is easy to become numb to the idea that your organization will be breached; complacency is the obvious result.

Only the attackers can benefit from such societal blasé. They know, and are counting on, organizations to believe (falsely) that because getting attacked is inevitable, they should allocate fewer resources (i.e money, people) to protect themselves. This, (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from IntelliGO MDR Blog authored by Effi Lipsman. Read the original post at: https://www.intelligonetworks.com/blog/breach-fatigue

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