3 Payment Data Security Essentials SMBs Shouldn’t Ignore

Infographic | February 3, 2022

Security is everyone’s responsibility. Enabling business, protecting data, and managing risks are critical to literally every business. Maintaining database security is important to safeguard highly confidential and sensitive data. Between January and September 2020, about 36 billion pieces of data were compromised. In 2021, data breach costs increased from USD 3.86 million to USD 4.24 million.

Infographic | December 3, 2019

Over four in ten UK businesses(link is external) suffered a breach or attack during 2018-19, and 43% of cyber attacks are targeting small businesses(link is external). Use our easy to digest infographic to remind yourself and your staff of cyber security best practices, which have never been more important.

Infographic | January 21, 2020

In 2018, cybersecurity and regulation figure prominently among top trends and priorities, increasing in frequency for the 1,400+ executives we interviewed across 10 industries. CGI can provide a discussion of all available benchmarking from our interview data, including each client’s positioning on topics such as IT satisfaction, IT budgets, innovation investments, digital maturity and more.

Infographic | July 29, 2021

Cybersecurity threats are on the rise. Cyberattacks have continued to increase in the EU in 2020 and 2021, in both sophistication and numbers, but also in terms of their impact. The EU is working on various fronts to protect people and businesses from cybercrime and to ensure a safe, open and secure cyberspace.

Infographic | February 12, 2020

Phishing is a cyber attack that uses disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to trick the email recipient into believing that the message is something they want or need — a request from their bank, for instance, or a note from someone in their company — and to click a link or download an attachment. What really distinguishes phishing is the form the message takes: the attackers masquerade as a trusted entity of some kind, often a real or plausibly real person, or a company the victim might do business with. It's one of the oldest types of cyberattacks, dating back to the 1990s, and it's still one of the most widespread and pernicious, with phishing messages and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Infographic | January 16, 2020

It seems counterintuitive that cybercriminals would focus on small businesses. Major news outlets report on the largest incidents, which typically affect the largest companies. In the past, small businesses may have been able to neglect network security with little consequence, but this is not the case today. Small businesses generally have fewer IT resources and devote less time and money to cybersecurity than their larger counterparts.