CYBERSECURITY & YOUR BUSINESS

What impact can a cybersecurity breach have on a small business? Cybersecurity is built on three core pillars: Confidentiality, Availability, and Integrity. Malicious actors target these pillars in their attacks, aiming to compromise sensitive data, disrupt operations, or alter critical information.

But what does this mean for your business? Let’s explore how an attack on each of these pillars could impact you.

  • The confidentiality pillar ensures that sensitive data remains protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. This includes credentials, customer information, financial records, sensitive emails, and more.

    A breach in confidentiality can lead to further cyberattacks, exposing your business to financial loss, legal penalties, and reputational damage. Keeping sensitive data secure is critical to maintaining trust and compliance in today’s digital landscape.

  • The integrity pillar ensures that data remains accurate, reliable, and unaltered without authorization.

    What if the prices on your website were changed? What if your business contact information was altered? What if your website was injected with malicious content? These are just a few examples of how attackers can manipulate your data, leading to financial loss, reputational damage, and a loss of customer trust.

    An attack on data integrity can disrupt operations, mislead customers, and harm your brand’s credibility. Protecting data integrity is essential to maintaining business stability and trustworthiness.

  • The availability pillar ensures that your data and systems remain accessible when you need them. An attack on availability aims to disrupt or deny access to critical systems, preventing you from running your business.

    One common example is ransomware, where malicious actors encrypt your data and demand a ransom for its release. In some cases, they also threaten to leak sensitive information if their demands are not met.

    If your systems become unavailable, it can halt operations, damage customer trust, and result in significant financial losses. Ensuring availability is crucial to keeping your business operational, profitable, and resilient against cyber threats.

THE COST OF A BREACH

Cyberattacks are a growing threat, and more small businesses are falling victim every year. According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware demands ranged from 0.13% to 8.30% of a company’s yearly revenue for 50% of reported cases, while the highest 10% of demands reached up to 24% of annual revenue.

Now, consider these numbers in the context of your own business—how would such a loss impact your operations, employees, and future growth? And these figures only reflect the ransom demand—they don’t account for additional costs, such as:

  • Hiring external cybersecurity experts to remediate the attack

  • Legal and regulatory fines for data breaches

  • Lost customer trust and reputational damage

  • Downtime and lost revenue while systems are being restored

Are you prepared to absorb those costs? Can your business afford to take that risk?

Investing in cybersecurity now is a fraction of the cost compared to recovering from a breach.

WHY SWIFT RAVEN SECURITY

Given the growing cyber threats facing small businesses, a proactive approach to cybersecurity is no longer optional—it’s essential. The question is not if your business will be targeted, but when.

At Swift Raven Security, our mission is to make it significantly harder for malicious actors to succeed and to minimize the damage when they do. This is achieved through a Defense-in-Depth strategy, where multiple layers of security work together to protect your most valuable data.

We specialize in cybersecurity audits and web application penetration testing, ensuring your business is fortified against data breaches, compliance failures, and cyberattacks—all at an affordable cost.

At our core, we believe in securing confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and we accomplish this through fast, reliable, and intelligent cybersecurity consulting.

  • Cybersecurity audits are essential to ensuring that your systems are properly configured and secure. At Swift Raven Security, we don’t just follow a checklist—we take a deep dive into your systems, learning how they function and identifying potential threats before they become real problems.

    Our process involves:

    • Studying and analyzing system configurations

    • Asking the right questions to uncover hidden risks

    • Conducting threat modeling to identify vulnerabilities and improve defenses

    With our hands-on approach, we help businesses secure their systems the best way possible, ensuring robust protection against modern cyber threats.

  • According to IBM’s Security X-Force 2023 report, 26% of cybersecurity incidents involved the exploitation of public-facing applications. This highlights the critical need for regular web application penetration testing to identify and fix security weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.

    At Swift Raven Security, we offer comprehensive web app penetration testing designed to secure your public-facing applications against real-world threats. Our pentests not only strengthen your application’s security but also help your business meet compliance requirements, such as PCI-DSS and other regulatory standards.