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Strengthen your business’s cyber security with FREE membership at The Cyber Resilience Centre for the South East The Cyber Resilience Centre for the South East (SECRC) is a police-led and not-for-profit partnership between academia and policing. The SECRC is one of nine Cyber Resilience Centre’s that have been set up as part of a network across the country to support businesses Our mission is simple, we exist to help businesses of all sizes (although we do have a focus on SMEs, micro businesses, and sole traders) to better protect themselves in the fight against cybercrime. When it comes to cyber criminals, there’s nothing small about small businesses. If you’re open for business online, you could be open to cyberattacks.
Cybercrime is a growing problem. Last year, it was reported up to 88% of UK companies suffered data breaches over the previous 12 months. Indeed, according to one study, one small business in the UK is successfully hacked every 19 seconds. The average cost of a cyber security breach in the UK is £1,010. However, this figure becomes greater as the size of a business increases. The cost of
a cyber-attack is not only financial, with the average time large businesses spend on managing the impact amounting to 3.4 days, according to statista.com. The SECRC exists to help you reduce your business’s cyber-related risk and to increase your cyber resilience. We do this by developing your knowledge in key areas so that you can implement basic methods of cyber hygiene. If you left your windows and doors open at night, your risk of burglary is signifi cantly increased. The impact of leaving your website unprotected or not doing regular software updates has the same level of risk, as they are your digital entry points as opposed to physical. To help you to guard your business from cyber-attacks in the way you would protect your premises against fire and flood, we offer a free membership package. This is not a membership package that puts heavy demand on you, instead it gives you access to regular simple, easy-to-follow guidance, tools, and resources as well as the
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