Conversations That Matter - Ep 82 - Dominic Vogel - Cyber Security

Episode 82

Dominic Vogel - Cyber Criminals Target Small Business

Conversations That Matter features Dominic Vogel a cyber security consultant who says big businesses are doing such a good job of thwarting the efforts of hackers they have turned their attention to small business. Vogel says, “what's happened is that smaller and mid-sized businesses are being hit really, really hard. In fact for last year, for 2015, over 40 percent of all cyber attacks were focused on small and mid-sized businesses.”

Small business and a naive public are ripe for cyber attacks because neither pay enough attention to their online safety. Vogel says most people don’t protect passwords properly or change them frequently enough, install program upgrades, they use public wifi and make themselves targets other threats, he says “hackers go where the money is,  they focus their attention on the top five applications in use”.

According to Vogel the number one program under threat is email,  “the reason is most of your sensitive applications tie back to your email, like your online banking. If you need to reset your online banking, it generally will tie back to your email. Your email is sort of like your heart which everything ties back to that, that's why email is considered a sensitive application.”

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