Technology Advisor Blog

As many of us have our head in the clouds for Halloween that is on a Friday this year, something spookier has grabbed folks’ attention this week. On Monday October 20^th, people noticed that something was off. Social media apps taking minutes to send messages or to send at all, streaming shows not loading properly, difficulties in sending deposits through Venmo, or even grabbing a drink from Starbucks and their POS systems are down. The cause: AWS had an outage that lasted for over half a day on Monday (great way to start off the week amiright?) For many, frustration and eagerness took over as they could only wait for this to be resolved. But just how many internet services and applications were affected?

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When keeping business operations alive, security is essential. Security isn’t just strong passwords of 16 or more characters across multiple different websites/accounts, or MFA, it’s a deeper-rooted step to take with your networks to prevent most cybersecurity threats.
From a 2021 Verizon study, “61% of small to mid-size businesses experienced a cyberattack in 2021”. In 2023 73% of small businesses faced cyber-attacks. In 2024, 94% of small to medium sized businesses faced a cybersecurity attack. The number keeps increasing each year with small businesses affected. Something must be done to protect businesses from such cyber attacks.

The mindset has probably come up multiple times in conversation; “I’m a small business, I’m too small to be known for hackers to try and target me”. It’s not exactly if it happens, it all matters as to when. Don’t wait until that ‘when’ turns into ‘today’ when you receive a socially engineered scam that looks legit. Scams are becoming harder to identify, when you are not investing in proper cybersecurity measures, the wrong people will notice you do not have the tools or budget.

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