Can your company  cybersecurity be properly covered without an expert?

Increased activity of cybercriminals online results in rapid increase of cyberattacks number. Not only great corporations are being aimed, but also smaller companies become the target. As a consequence, companies started to consider hiring a cybersecurity expert. But it’s not an easy decision to make. Smaller companies usually don’t have enough budget to cover an expert salary. In addition, current market lacks specialists that deal with cybersecurity in an expert way, so hiring one could occur impossible, despite budget. Should every company have its own expert on board? Are there any possible ways to secure company online? Check below. 

Cybersecurity is a prior issue in many companies 

In the world of fast digitalization the field of cybersecurity grows equally fast. It’s not surprising, because the number of cyberattacks targeted to companies escalates. Cybercriminals constantly develop and expands methods of committing cyber crimes. Company security systems that were effective for now, become insufficient. Numbers speak for themselves: in 2021 only, 3 out of 4 companies in Poland were the victims of ransomware attack, a number of incidents connected with phishing increased by 196%, comparing with the previous year. 

An enterprise that undergoes a hacker attack has to face many difficulties, including: business downtime, loss of financial founding, PR issues, loss of clients, fines for violation of personal rights... As an example: ransomware attack usually costs a Polish company above 300.000 euro. 

Regarding those facts, more and more companies treats IT security as a prior. They prefer to be secured than facing all the damaging effects of cyberattacks. Companies often plans to hire a cybersecurity expert. But this is not a simple process. The cybersecurity market lacks experts 

Hiring a full-time cybersecurity expert in connected with high costs, people working in the field are really well-payed. For example, in Poland their salary usually equals ck. 15,000 PLN (as the raport “Cybersecurity. Raport o rynku pracy w Polsce” shows). Not every enterprise has enough budget to deal with hiring such a person. The issue usually refers to smaller companies. 

However, if the company will be able to gather proper budget, there is no guaranty that it will be able to find a proper person. The market doesn’t have enough qualified people in the field yet, and the need for them constantly grows. 

This worrying trend tends to be present and stable all over the world. There are estimations, that the whole world lack about 5,5 million specialists in cybersecurity. In Poland there are 17,5 thousand of vacancies in many different industries. What is the solutions for the company, that neither have budget for an expert, nor can find any in the market? 

How to survive without an IT security expert? 

Luckily, it is not truth, that only a cybersecurity expert can provide the enterprise with a complex cybersecurity system. There are other (and cheaper) methods, that let a company take care of a high level of cybersecurity without hiring any expert. Management, CEO, managing director or IT manager are able to maintain a stable situation when it comes to company cybersecurity, using our tools. 

First step is to use a Telescope – free IT security audit, based on ISO 27001 and COBIT standards. Such an audit you can do all by yourself and it only takes a few minutes. You choose the best moment to do this. It only takes a short form to be filled. Your report will reach you immediately. It will consist of information on the level of your systems for cybersecurity. You will know, what areas need to be revised quickly and it allows you to minimize the risk of cyberattacks that are connected with enterprise losses.   

You can do your audit by yourself, but it doesn’t mean that you’ll be left alone with your report. You can consult the result with our expert and he will provide you with useful directions, what to do to be better secured. 

Next step would be to bet on created by us advanced security system Cyberstudio. It works like a virtual cybersecurity expert. 24 hours a day it monitors, depicts and eliminates threats that are lurking around the corner in cyberspace. Using it gives you a complex security in IT field. You will know about any threats immediately and you will be informed how to deal with them. You will also get clear reports including important information on its number and the scale of vulnerability of the IT environment, on risks profile of your most endangered hosts and on how long it takes to implement improvements. 

How to effectively secure your company against all cyber threats? Visit our blog regularly, we invite you also to our fanpage and LinkedIn profile. We share some useful information on cybersecurity there. 

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