{"id":38172,"date":"2022-10-13T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/?p=38172"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:38:06","slug":"three-ways-to-encourage-the-importance-of-security-posture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/de\/blog\/three-ways-to-encourage-the-importance-of-security-posture","title":{"rendered":"Three ways to encourage the importance of security posture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m not a big enough business\u2026 I\u2019m too small\u2026 no one will want to hack me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have anything of any importance that anyone would want\u2026 I\u2019m not terribly concerned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt hasn\u2019t happened to us yet, so it isn\u2019t something I\u2019m worried about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019re proposing seems like overkill to me. And besides, we don\u2019t have the extra funds in our budget anyway. We prepare just to stay how we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How many times have you heard your customers voice these kinds of objections when presenting your security proposal to them? And how many times have you struggled trying to convince them that you are just trying to improve their current protection levels to better secure their business and their livelihood, and that this isn\u2019t just a cash grab?<\/span><\/p>\n

Even with all of the reports that continue to circulate in the news, small and medium sized businesses are still not taking their security and cyber-resiliency capabilities seriously enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So what is an MSP to do?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are three ways MSPs can help their customers take their security posture more seriously:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>Continue to educate<\/span><\/h2>\n

Stats do work. Hackers ARE turning their focus more and more these days to targeting small and medium-sized businesses because they have more data than individuals but are generally more lax in their cybersecurity standards than larger enterprises\u2014making them easy targets for the bad guys. By educating your customers using a few compelling stats, it can help them to see that it isn\u2019t you telling them what to do, but you have data to back up your recommendations as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

A compelling stat comes from the Accenture\u2019s Cost of Cybercrime Study<\/span><\/a> that found that 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses, but only 14% of small businesses are prepared to defend themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

And according to the article, \u201c10 Small Business Cyber Security Statistics That You Should Know\u201d<\/span><\/a> it highlights these compelling statistics:<\/span><\/p>\n