Types of Attacks

Small Business Cyber Attacks

🔐 General Impact

  • 44% of cyberattacks target small businesses.
    (Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 2023)

  • 60% of small businesses go out of business within 6 months of a cyberattack.
    (U.S. National Cyber Security Alliance)

💰 Cost of Breaches

  • The average cost of a data breach for small businesses is $120,000 to $250,000.
    (IBM and Ponemon Institute, 2023)

  • 75% of small businesses could not continue operating profitably after a ransomware attack.
    (Coveware Ransomware Report)

🧑‍💻 Attack Vectors

  • Phishing emails are the top attack method (over 90% of breaches start this way).
    (Barracuda Networks, 2023)

  • Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities and stolen credentials are frequently exploited.
    (SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, 2023)

👎 Lack of Preparation

  • 51% of small businesses have no cybersecurity measures in place.
    (Forbes, 2023)

  • 83% of SMBs aren’t financially prepared to recover from a cyberattack.
    (InsuranceBee Survey)

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a guide for cyber security framework that applies to small businesses.   We have made a summary of the NIST Guide with links to the original NIST guide documentation.

THIS IS A SUMMARY of the guide which assists small businesses in implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 for effective cybersecurity risk management.

Purpose

  • Provides guidance for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) to kick-start their cybersecurity risk management strategy.
  • Aims to assist organizations with modest or no cybersecurity plans, including non-profits and schools.

What is NIST Cybersecurity Framework?

  • A voluntary guidance framework for organizations to understand, assess, prioritize, and communicate cybersecurity efforts.
  • Not a one-size-fits-all approach; it allows organizations to tailor their risk management strategies.

Getting Started with Cybersecurity Framework

  • Organizes cybersecurity outcomes into six Functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
  • Offers starting points for businesses to manage cybersecurity risks and encourages discussion with managed security service providers (MSSPs).

Govern

  • Establishes a cybersecurity risk management strategy and policy.
  • Actions include understanding risks, assessing impacts, prioritizing risks, and communicating policies.

Identify

  • Helps determine current cybersecurity risks to the business.
  • Actions include understanding assets, assessing vulnerabilities, prioritizing data classification, and communicating cybersecurity plans.

Protect

  • Supports the use of safeguards to prevent or reduce cybersecurity risks.
  • Actions include understanding access controls, assessing training effectiveness, prioritizing multi-factor authentication, and communicating basic cyber hygiene tasks.

Detect

  • Provides outcomes to identify and analyze possible cybersecurity incidents.
  • Actions include understanding indicators of incidents, assessing technologies for deviations, and prioritizing antivirus software installation.

Respond

  • Supports actions regarding detected cybersecurity incidents.
  • Actions include understanding the incident response plan, assessing response capabilities, prioritizing containment steps, and communicating with stakeholders.

Recover

  • Involves activities to restore operations impacted by cybersecurity incidents.
  • Actions include understanding recovery responsibilities, assessing incidents, prioritizing recovery actions, and communicating with stakeholders.

Profiles Additional Resources

  • Describes how to create Organizational Profiles to implement the Cybersecurity Framework.

Includes tools for mapping standards and guidelines, as well as resources for workforce development in cybersecurity

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