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New York, NY, September 14, 2019 --(PR.com)-- “Although many SMEs believe that they are not
interesting enough to be hacked, criminals think differently. Of all cyber attacks on companies, 64% are
SMEs, resulting in, among other things, a business interruption, loss of reputation, economic costs and/or
a fine or legal action. Moreover, 60% of the affected companies that did not take out cyber insurance are
out of business within six months of a cyber incident,” Israeli cyber security specialist Avi Bartov,
director of the specialized cyber security company GamaSec, said this Thursday in a presentation during
the annual relationship day that CNA Hardy organized for 60 relations from the insurance industry.
According to Bartov, SMEs are, in the eyes of the average hacker, a grateful, ideal and easy target. Not
least because international research shows that a majority of all SMEs indicate that insufficient staff
(74%) and too little budget / money (55%) are cited as the reason why IT security is not in order to reduce
cyber risks adequately. Other frequently cited reasons for this are no idea how to adequately combat
cyber attacks (47%), insufficient use of cyber security technology (38%), lack of knowledge and
experience in this area in-house (37%) and that cyber security is not a priority has (23%). No fewer than
75% of employees who leave a company leave their computers unsecured.
According to Bartov, the consequences of a hack or other cyber incident can be drastic. "For example in
the form of a business interruption, loss of reputation, economic costs and / or a fine or a legal case."
With regard to the financial consequences, he made a distinction between the directly visible costs and
the costs "below the surface of the water." According to him, the first category includes direct costs for
solving data breaches, PR and communication costs, fines, lawyer costs and necessary improvements to
the company's cyber security. As "invisible costs," he mentions, among other things, an increase in
insurance costs, the higher costs of raising borrowed capital, disruption of the operational course of
events, loss of customer relationships, and contract value.
Other outcomes
In his presentation, the Israeli cyber security specialist said that in 81% of the cases cyber crime is the
basis for a hack, followed by (cyber) espionage (10.3%), cyber war (5.2%) or (political) (h) activism (
3.4%). Among the affected companies are mainly the smaller SMEs (turnover
Bartov also observed a shift in cyber incidents from internal to external perpetrators. In 2014, 4,063
(55.2%) were the result of an internal perpetrator; this year at 1,266, that number was only 29.3% of all
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incidents. The share caused by external hackers and other cyber criminals increased from 44.8% in 2014
(3,291 incidents) to 70.7% (3,059) of the tonal number of incidents.
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Contact Information:
GamaSec
Tom Rand
877-776-3925
Contact via Email
https://www.gamasec.com
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