Would you rather pay for enhanced security or pay a ransom for your crippled system?
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles learned the hard way when their computers were offline for over a week. Once they paid the ransom of $17,000 in bitcoins they were back in business.
The greatest damage is done when your customers no longer trust your ability to protect their identity and privacy. If your CRM management, accounting, and product-related systems are attacked, thus exposing your customers, no amount of insurance can rectify the situation.
Financial loss runs a close second to reputation loss. Once your data has been breached, there’s no end to the ways in which your company can be destroyed. Hackers can use ransomware to literally lock your company-wide system until you pay a ransom for its release. Can you really afford to be dead in the water for days, even weeks?
Cyber Security insurance can reduce the pain somewhat, but don’t expect to recoup much more that 34% of the monetary cost of recovery. In 2013, Target stores also found out the hard way when their credit card terminal data was breached.
We have found that too often companies will pay the ransom out of desperation, but by then the damage has already been done. And the dollar amount of that ransom is far greater than the cost of a thorough security analysis to prevent the crime.
We have conducted many Technical Surveillance Counter Measure (TSCM) investigations to expose and correct weak security areas. We have the education, the latest technical equipment, and government extensive investigative experience. We suggest you pay us, instead of the Hackers. It’s a lot less expensive.
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