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TouchPoint Networks Protects SMBs from Exponential Growth in Cybercrime

January 11th, 2021 by admin

Cyber Security Connections Across Globe 3D Rendering

PORTLAND, OR – TouchPoint Networks, a leading managed technology services provider (MTSP), announced today that it is educating companies on the dramatic spike in cybercrime targeted towards small to mid-sized (SMB) businesses. Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that “cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015.” Effectively, this means that criminals have access to unlimited budgets to increase the sophistication of their attacks, meanwhile, business owners are doing little or nothing to defend themselves. Those diverging trendlines signal a precarious future. Furthermore, due to COVID-19, most businesses have been forced to operate remotely which has increased their reliance on home networks to perform their daily duties. This increased reliance on insecure home networks has left them more susceptible to breaches than ever before…

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