CRITICAL LINE ITEM ON THE BUDGET

I’m jumping on Q4 to encourage proactivity by CEOs and CIOs as they sit, heads together, and decide how and with whom to enhance their current cybersecurity position. Cyber-insurance brokers, vendors, customers, employees, and communities are asking for (or requiring!) improved cybersecurity. Corporate liability looms large unless you protect your information assets and operations with the same level of care you treat fire prevention.

CEOs who understand that heightened cybersecurity is an investment with dividends have begun taking the lead.

Calculating the costs of not making that investment – to sales, production, workflow, downtime, digitized catch up work, infrastructure reconfiguration after a breach, and the company’s reputation – has provided management this rude awakening: Costs to address a cyber-incident and its inherent clean-up would pay a few years’ fees for a cybersecurity partner, minus the headaches!

Heads of IT appreciate that, as their colleagues recognize the real math behind investing in cybersecurity, IT folks may no longer be asked to “do the best you can at minimal expense”. With that former approach, IT faced a conundrum as they bore liability for short-cut network and security choices – a ticking time bomb – that was insufficient to maintain seamless daily operations and data security. Luckily, those days are ebbing and IT folks are being given mandate to leverage cyber-experts who have their back.

What do your cybersecurity allocations look like this budget, preparing for holidays and a bright New Year? If you know you’re moving towards penetration hardened cybersecurity, don’t wait! Speak with Data-Guard365 or another qualified partner and get cyber-secured now. Many partners need time to deploy their solutions and may work with you for palatable billing terms so you can demonstrate a stronger position sooner than later.

There’s no need for a cyber-grinch to steal your holiday peace or the plenty you intend to generate in 2024!

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