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Thanks all. Great conversation. My takeaways are many and this has been a great insight into how business owners look at cyber.
I'm too close to it.
My terminology needs work if I'm talking to people who don't live in cyber.
It's a hard thing to convince other businesses that the investment...
Surely your risk here is with Wordpress? I'm assuming it's hosted externally and therefore must be getting scanned. Use plugins? A lot have been known to have vulnerabilities... Strong passwords to access the admin portal?
Still won't let me post links but:
google cyber trends 2023.
NCSC has a report which suggests 39% of businesses will face a cyber incident
Mandiant has a report looking at trends.
There's other various articles.
Isn't that fairly obvious though? I get that businesses just want to trade. but fact: cyber incidents are on the increase. businesses are more likely to be impacted by a cyber incident. So is there a lack of awareness? Or a lack of understanding of the risks posed?
Good call on the terminology. Looking at the NCSC which has done some good stuff - they're using Cyber Security rather than cyber posture. Has anyone used the guidance and found it useful? Google NCSC SME to get the guide - can't post the link here.
I'm after some insights from this community. I'm feeling there's a gap currently in helping SMEs with improving their cyber posture. There's lots of information and tools out on the internet, but not in a format that SMEs can quickly digest, work out what does and doesn't apply to their...