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Fully Managed Cyber Security Early Warning Threat Detection for Corporate Home Workers; protecting against Hackers, Data Loss and IT Compliance (eg GDPR) violation.
About
We've all become used to working from home. Most if us are provided with a laptop running anti-virus software and a VPN. Yet, cyber-attacks on home workers have jumped over 300% since the start of the pandemic. Attackers know that home workers share their network with other family members, and a plethora of "smart" devices; making the home network an easier route to access the corporate network. Furthermore, data compliance (GDPR, SOX, etc) applies as much in remote locations as it does in the main offices - it’s the same data after all. GDPR violations has also rocketed since lockdown. In the UK, an SMB is "successfully" hacked every 9 seconds - where successful means loss of data, downtime, or other damage. Whilst the average cost of a SMB breach is manageable at £6,500, or concerningly 60% of SMBs are out of business within 6 months of a cyber-attack. Remote working has been identified as the main contributor in more than 20% of SMB breaches, leaving the majority of C-suite execs and Data Processing Officers concerned around the cyber risks from working from home. Botprobe provide a fully managed cyber threat detection service designed exclusively to meet the security needs of corporate home workers. Our security-as-a-service portfolio offers protection against hackers, data loss and breach of IT/regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR). Our solution works in conjunction with existing corporate-provided security to protect the data on the home worker network, therefore also protecting the routes to the corporate network. Home working in some form is here to stay. In a recent poll by Botprobe 95% surveyed expected to work from home between 1 and 5 days post-COVID lockdown. Whilst our solutions offer much needed protection any business, our product excels is any business where users access confidential data (customer lists, corporate IP, personal identifiable information) from home - such as legal, finance, fintech, bio/life sciences, home call centres, pharma, gaming, IoT. Businesses have worked hard to provide impenetrable walls around their corporate network. Don't let a hacker get through the back door.
Key Benefits
Botprobe provides additional layers of cyber security protection, beyond the traditional anti-virus and VPN. Our security-as-a-service provides the home workforce with protection against hackers, data loss and compliance violations. The key benefits of our services are: - PREVENTS nefarious activity that filewalls, VPN and AV cannot stop - PROTECTS all devices across a home network - even IoT - ALERTS against porential GDPR breaches - ENFORCES IT policy at home offices - COUNTERACTS poor user security awareness - PROTECTS the corporate network against cyber-risks from satellite offices.
Applications
Our target market is corporate businesses with home workers who handle business confidential data at home. In a recent poll done by Botprobe, 95% of respondents expected to work from home between 1 and 5 days post-COVID lockdown. Our solution works for any business, or any size, however we are actively targetting business that stand to suffer the biggest impact (financially, regulatory or reputationally) should a malicious user get access to a home worker network, or use the home network as a stepping stone to the corporate network; including legal, finance, fintech, bio/life sciences, home call centres, pharma, gaming, IoT. There is a strong correlation between data security and customer loyalty. Almost 74% of businesses have been questioned by customers as to how they protect their data. Regulatory policies dictact that personal data must be protected to the same extent outside of the immediate corporate infrastructure, giving rise to an increase in GDPR violations during lockdown. Currently the team is UK based, so it active in the UK market. We have aspirations to take our services global for B2B, and see a potential for our solution in the B2C global market also.