There is a children’s book, “Inside, Outside, Upside Down” featuring The Berenstain Bears, that teaches young children about spatial concepts. When it comes to securing your organization’s data, it may feel like you need to cover all of the spaces: inside, outside, and even upside down. It’s no wonder, since security risks exist everywhere: inside the network and outside the firewall, from employees accidentally leaking information via their mobile devices to outside phishing and malware threats trying to get in. With these increased cyber risks, companies of all sizes are constantly challenged with how to spatially navigate the security landscape.
Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may not have dedicated security staff or security budgets compared to larger organizations. Yet their cybersecurity risks aren’t any smaller. In fact, ransomware is hitting SMBs hard. More than half of SMBs experienced a ransomware hack in 2017, according to a report by Ponemon Institute. Nearly 80 percent of SMBs said that ransomware was launched through a social engineering attack.