When you are living your life in a very good way, you have plenty of food and drink, and you do not have any physical illness that requires you to go to a doctor, there is nothing wrong with your life, so why waste time and money? Everything is fine.
This is also true with your business.
It’s possible that you’re convinced that there’s no IT problem, your antivirus software is humming along, and everything is backed up anyway, so who needs an MSP and all our security costs are covered by our ID guy, right
- You can’t accept payments or issue invoices.
- Is there any loss of customer data that you need to explain?
- Have you experienced a PII or PHI breach? Are you sure?
- Worst of all: Can your employees work and generate sales?
- It’s simple math. If your hourly billing rate is $250 and 20 people can’t work, you’re losing $5,000 per hour. That’s $40,000 per day.
“Calm down, I have cyber insurance!”
Do you really have that? Did you answer the last cyber insurance questionnaire correctly, or did you just check all the boxes “yes” because you’re pretty sure your IT team has the case covered?
If not, then… good luck getting car insurance after an accident. That’s ugly. And don’t forget that you’re losing goodwill with your customers and losing thousands of dollars in revenue while you work to recover.
What’s the solution? A physical exam.
It’s easy to get audits for vulnerabilities, adequate security, patches, business continuity, end-user training, and more. It does more than just give you peace of mind. It protects you from threats you didn’t even know existed.
One last thing. It’s good to be cautious of blogs based on FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt). But it’s real. You need to be protected from cybercriminals. If not, you need to question what’s going on with your company.
There are a lot of great MSPs out there, and KME Systems is one of them (at the risk of sounding self-satisfied). So schedule an action survey before the bad news becomes reality.
What is an inspection and why I need it