Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on December 17, 2017, 6:06 AM

Cybercrime is rapidly becoming the most costly and most common crime in the world. Attackers have the capacity to completely interrupt business operations, compromise confidential information, and damage relationships between clients and businesses. Without a complete security implementation, a business remains at high risk of cyber-attacks. As I noted in the past, cloud is one way to execute a great cybersecurity strategy with minimal cost. In short, going cloud saves you from many issues, and when you move to SaaS (software as a service) you reduce it further.

If you are a small company, I want to recommend that you put your digital information in the cloud. It is going to save you from a huge mess if something bad happens.  Let it be your business new year resolution if you do that.

In late December 2015, a hacking attack caused physical damage at an unnamed German steel mill. Cyber hackers used practical social engineering and spear phishing method to gain control relying on an initial privileged access to steal office network of the steel mill. In 2007, Stuxnet caused massive attack, inflicting damage to tools and control systems.  The trajectory remains and daily we see amalgam of attacks in different ways.

For cyber-induced physical attacks, just as in natural disaster, it has become essential to have data backup plan or disaster recovery strategy. This ensures that an organization can recover quickly. Cloud systems like Microsoft Azure, MainOne, RackCenter, MTN VCloud and Amazon EC2 have become critical strategies, providing hosted companies the capabilities to recover should there be attacks.

If the above listed ones are expensive, a simple Dropbox premium account could be helpful. Simply, you need to have your business data outside your domain. Cloud makes that possible at the cheapest cost possible.