Crippling cyberattacks don’t just happen to huge businesses like Target, Home Depot, and Sony.

It could happen to you.

In fact, you are more likely to be attacked online than some megacorporation. According to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report, the majority, 60% to be exact, of cyberattacks in 2014 targeted small to medium-sized businesses.

You see, your average cybercriminal doesn’t want a challenge. They just want to get in and get out and steal as much valuable information as they can as easily as possible. Large businesses have the resources to protect their data by investing in the very best tools and hiring the very best talent the IT security community has to offer. Smaller organizations often take a barebones approach to their technology because they don’t have much of a budget to work with in the first place and there are others needs to be addressed as well.

We know that if you’re working with a limited budget you’re going to have to cut costs somewhere, but IT infrastructure is an area that you should remain untouched.

The cost of maintaining your IT infrastructure and securing your network is nothing compared to what it will cost you if your data is compromised. Consider this: recovering from data loss cost an average of $150 for every record lost, and it isn’t all unusual for thousands of files to be compromised in just one attack. Can you afford to take a $150,000+ hit right now?

Cyberattacks aren’t exactly a rare occurrence, either. Over 300 million new pieces of malware were created in 2014, infecting over 3 million businesses in the US through the course of the year. Many of these infections resulted in significant data loss, and the financial consequences of data loss (remember, $150,000+, often much more than that) are enough to put a lot of people out of business (65% of small to medium-sized businesses close for good with 1 year of a security breach).

CopperTree offers a solution you can actually afford. Our comprehensive security solution is just one of the managed services we offer. We’ll also help you maintain your equipment, migrate to the cloud, cut telephony costs, and plan for the future: everything you’d get with your own in-house IT department, all for much less than the cost of a single full-time employee.

Contact us at (519) 804-2461 for more information about our complete managed services for Kitchener businesses.