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Safeguarding Your Pest Control Business From
Costly Cyber Risks
Identify the critical information a
business has, needs and stores.
Analyze the threat to that critical
information. Questions to ask include:
• Does your business have an online
sales/advertising component? If
so, are you protected against the
increasing threat of cyber risks?
• Is sensitive customer information
stored on site?
BY GARY SHAPIRO, SENIOR VICE • Do you have adequate protection if
PRESIDENT OF WEISBURGER INSURANCE your site or online sales/advertising
BROKERAGE tools are compromised?
VIRTUALLY EVERY BUSINESS RELIES Evaluate the vulnerabilities to your
ON A NETWORK to conduct its daily business that would allow a cyber-attack
operations, making cyber liability a on that data, and assess the impact of the
concern for all businesses. With every attack.
click of the purchase button, shoppers put Develop countermeasures to prevent
themselves at risk of having their personal and mitigate damage in the event of a
information stolen—a risk that is typically cyber-attack by having sound response
absorbed by the businesses from which strategies in place. Such measures
they are buying. In their 2019 Cost of a include:
Data Breach Report, IBM and the Ponemon • Evaluating the security settings
Institute found that the global average on software, browser and email
cost of a data breach continues to rise, programs.
increasing from the previous year to $3.92
million. • Using one computer for online
banking needs and using SecureID
To protect a business against protection.
cybercrime, it is essential to take a
proactive approach and have the right • Monitoring use of mobile devices
kind of insurance coverage. Every business and public Wi-Fi access for
has its own unique needs and risks, employees.
but there are some general guidelines • Storing critical information through
outlined below that can help manage that a remote server.
risk and protect any business from cyber Develop the plan, implement it
exposures: and communicate it to leadership and
employees so they know their role and
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