CyberSecurity Awareness Month – Be Cyber Smart!

CyberSecurity Awareness Month – Be Cyber Smart!

Most Medicare or health-insurance agents are sole proprietors. In the 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon found that 58% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Moreover according to the U.S. National Cyber Security Alliance, 60% of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. We see this trend because, according to the Ponemon Institute, the average cost for small businesses to clean up after being hacked is about $690,000 and, for middle market companies, it is over $1 million. Can you sustain that cost?