Although we do a lot of fixing broken printers and helping people with outlook problems, that is not what gets me up in the morning. Nope. I mean, we have to do it, but that's not what gets me going and fired up.
What gets me going and keeps me fired up -> protecting people's businesses and preparing them for a cyber attack.
What we are here to do, and our mission is, we are here to keep your businesses as safe as possible. But we're there to help you prepare for the eventuality of a cyber attack. A couple of sobering statistics on why we're so worried about this and why we spend so much time and energy on this. 60% of the businesses that have a successful cyber attack go out of business within a year.
And that number is much lower because the FBI says that few people actually tell them when they've been cyber attacked. Some people think it's closer to 80% to 85% of the businesses that get successfully attacked go out of business. It costs us as a country $12.5 billion in 2023 because of cyber attacks.
That is unacceptable. It's a travesty.
Businesses go under, people lose their jobs, kids don't eat. And you're like, whoa, Tom, you're kind of going crazy, am I? It's frickin bad. $12.5 billion! I'd like a few billion to do more good in society, to try and help people to be more prepared for a cyber attack.
Protect and Prepare.
I'm about all protecting. And you can spend a large amount of money on protecting. But the reality is, regardless of the different things you put in place, if they really want to get to you, they're going to get to you. I hate to break it to you. And people are like, well, why would they want to get to me?
They want to get to everybody. It's a numbers game for them. They get on people's networks. They look to see what they have from a, from a resource standpoint, if they have insurance, whatever it is, and then they plan an attack and then they execute that attack and they may do it across 50 people at one time.
So they're coming for you. And if they want to get in, they're going to get in.
So what you're left with is preparing. If you know they're going to get to you, then you prepare and you get them out and you get back up and running with as little amount of money as possible. And you lock down the way that they got in so that they can't get back in again. Those are the type of things you do.
You have great backups so that you know everything goes south. You at least can get back your data for sure. So it's all about prep, and that's what gets me fired up and gets me going is if we help spread the word, regardless if a company is our client or not, if we as a company help spread the word that preparedness is where it's at.
It's not if, it's when and preparing for the when, if we spread that word, then we're accomplishing our mission.
So I want you to have a great and safe 2025.
And be prepared. Take the time to think about and talk to your security professional about what it means to be prepared. Safe computing. Have a great one and I'll see you on the next video.
