A great article by Michael Dell on Inc.com
Cyber attacks don’t endanger only major corporations but also growing companies. What are you doing to protect yourself?
As Dell has transformed from a products company to a solutions company over the past few years, our salespeople have had to change from saying, “Let me show you what I have to sell you,” to saying, “Let’s talk about what problems you want to solve.” And when you ask people about their biggest worry these days, their biggest unmet need, cyber-security is at the top of the list.
After hearing the same concern over and over we said, let’s figure out how to solve it. Securing and protecting data for companies of all sizes is now a billion-dollar, fast-growing business for Dell. The number of attacks is staggering, and expanding at an astounding rate. In the past year alone, we prevented 1.06 trillion intrusion events in 249 countries. That’s not a typo: 1.06 trillion intrusion events. In one year.
Data security is a major problem for any company that has valuable information to protect, and that means most companies these days. Just about every week there’s a fairly major cyber-security event that gets talked about in the public–and there are many more that don’t get talked about.
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Think about the kinds of information that’s at risk: We work with banks, insurance companies, and ecommerce sites that need to protect their customers’ personal information and finances. There are pharmaceutical companies and aerospace companies with tons of important intellectual property. We have clients that control critical infrastructure–nuclear power plants and air-traffic-control systems, for instance.
[Read the rest of the article at Inc.]