Question: How do you outrun a bear?
Answer: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You don’t have to outrun the bear. Just make sure you are faster than the slowest person in your group.
Managing cybersecurity risks is a lot like outrunning the bear. As a business owner, you don’t need to outrun the bear. You have to outrun a business who has worse security than you do. Many adversaries (or bears) have a finite number of resources to waste on you. That means a finite amount of money, time, and people to attack you. However, making it mildly more difficult means the adversary must expend more money, time, and manpower to accomplish their goals. Unless they are seriously motivated or you have something they desperately want or need, most will want to move on because there are plenty of other fish in the sea that will give them the same outcomes.
For over ten years, Net Force has been a premier cybersecurity firm taking on some of the most difficult challenges in enterprise security and risk management space. During that time, we have seen many enterprise “wall street” businesses get better at cybersecurity and reducing their cybersecurity risks. However, main street businesses are the businesses who still have not been able to manage their cybersecurity risks.
Do you know how many small businesses and small business have come to Net Force for help at their darkest hour after a cyber attack? Too many.
Our hearts break every time we get one of these calls, these emails. Each one is a literal and figurative cry and plea for help, as small business owners, chief executive officers, and presidents of companies cling onto every small fragment and shred of hope to find ways to resurrect their business from the smoldering ashes left in the charred remains of their business after a cyber attack.
We said enough is enough. We are frankly tired of too many people getting hurt because so many businesses go ‘out of business’ after a cyber attack.
After thousands of hours of research and understanding how we can help small businesses be resilient, we realized that most small businesses talk and think about cybersecurity using 1990’s tactics and techniques. Yes, that is right: the 1990’s. What are those tactics and techniques? Antivirus and Firewall. The irreducible minimum in cybersecurity, to combat modern day cyber attacks is using legacy antivirus and firewalls, an irreducible minimum standard defined in the 1990’s. That is the equivalent of bringing a plastic knife to a gun fight.
Today, we are announcing Securithis (pronounced secure this) by Net Force, a fractional security practice to help small and medium sized businesses ‘raise the security bar’ on their businesses and reduce their risks.
Our vision is simple: to reduce your cyber risks with a fractional security team and enterprise grade, best in class security tools to define a new irreducible minimum in security, and in cyber risk management while making it reasonable and affordable.
Our goal is to prevent as many successful attacks as possible. While we know we will not prevent every cyber attack and we will not solve every cyber security challenge with our solution, we know that we can prevent a considerable number of cyber attacks from being successful. We cannot let perfection get in the way of progress because cybersecurity perfection does not exist – contrary to what some people will tell you.
Businesses already leverage fractional services any number of professionals. Fractional, part-time, accounting, and bookkeeping services from accountants and bookkeepers. Legal advice from lawyers. If we can have part-time financial and legal experts, why can’t we have fractional security experts serving you?
Today, Net Force redefines what the irreducible minimum reducing cybersecurity risks is for small businesses.
Make an investment today to prevent your next cyber attack. Securithis by Net Force Prevent Security Plans start as low as $50.00/month/seat1.
- A seat is defined as the number of endpoints or number of employees, whichever is greater. ↩︎
