How to Protect Small Businesses from Cybercrime

 There’s no doubt the world has changed. As a result of the pandemic, working cultures across the globe have evolved in unprecedented ways. With the shift to remote work and online collaboration, cybercrime is more active. Criminals take advantage of organizations’ system vulnerabilities, especially smaller-scale companies such as SMEs and other similarly sized businesses.

Cybersecurity researchers recorded 200,000 computer science and engineering cyberattacks per week. That’s a 30 percent increase compared to weeks before that observation period. Since then, cyber threats have only continued to rise. Phishing and malware have become major threats to SMEs’ operations. Clearly, enterprises now need to adapt and act swiftly to ensure effective security solutions are in place.

Here are some ways cybercriminals can attack your business as a result of the shift to remote work:

Unmanaged home PCs and laptops – As you and your team work from home, your unprotected gadgets and computers can be hacked easily. When you move and share your company files and data to the cloud without cybersecurity, you risk losing them because of outside threats.