Cybersecurity threats to small- and mid-sized businesses are not only getting more sophisticated, they’re also intensifying. Organizations that would have seen one attack a year are now experiencing them on a weekly or monthly basis. As the threat landscape changes, businesses need to evolve quickly and aggressively to protect themselves and their clients.

Trend 1: Attackers are targeting the small fish to land the big ones

Attackers are targeting small organizations in order to penetrate their larger partners. Two recent examples are LabCorp and Quest, both of whom had customer data compromised by hackers penetrating their smaller sub-contractors. “Right now, there’s no longer security in obscurity,” said David Rossell, Ph.D., CISSP, who runs the security practice at Ntiva, Inc. “Just because you’re small doesn’t mean you’re safe from attackers.”

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