The proportion of companies that have experienced a breach of IT security has more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, according to an analysis from the business organization SMVdanmark.
Hackers have increasingly opened their eyes to small businesses, concludes the business organization for small and medium-sized enterprises SMVdanmark in a new analysis of breaches of Danish companies’ IT security based on data from Statistics Denmark.
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The proportion of Danish companies that have experienced a breach of IT security has more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, it says, and among the small companies with between 10 and 49 employees, it is now almost one in four companies – 23 per cent. – who have experienced breaches of IT security during 2021.
Read the analysis from SMEDanmark here.
“Many smaller companies have the opinion that a hacker attack will not happen to them, because why would it be interesting to hack into their company, they think,” says consultant and cyber expert at SMEDanmark Lasse Lundqvist in a press release.
“Here it is important to remember that if something has value for the company, it also has value for a hacker. All industries can be affected by a hacker attack. This is exactly what the new figures in the analysis testify to.’
According to SMEDanmark, a ransomware attack will cost an average small business around DKK 376,000 in lost revenue alone.
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Quelle: 06092022 1953 https://www.version2.dk/artikel/danske-smver-er-i-hackernes-soegelys-alle-brancher-kan-blive-ramt-af-et-hackerangreb
