Hackers don't care what size your business is; they only care if they can get past your defenses and relieve you of your valuables. Hackers actually like small businesses as they tend to have more to steal than an individual person but fewer cyber defenses than a large company. The hard reality is that most page174 small businesses stand at least a 50-50 chance of being targeted for attack by hackers. Did you know: Once every three minutes, the average company comes into contact with viruses and malware. One in every 291 email messages contains a virus. Three things hackers want most are customer data, intellectual property, and bank account information. The top five file names used in phishing scams are Details.zip, UPS_document.zip, DCIM.zip, Report.zip, and Scan.zip. The average annual cost of a cyberattack on a small or medium-sized Cyberthieves are always looking for new ways to gain access to your business data, business networks, and business applications. The best way to protect your business from cybertheft is to build a strong defense and be able to identify vulnerabilities and weak spots. The top five ways hackers will try to gain access to your businesses, according to John Brandon of Inc. magazine, are highlighted in (Please note that there are far more than five ways; these are just the five most common.) 1. Define information ethics and information security, and explain whether they are important to help prevent hackers from gaining access to an organization. 2. Identify two epolicies that a business could implement to ensure the protection of sensitive corporate data from hackers. 3. Demonstrate how a business can use authentication and authorization technologies to prevent hackers from gaining access to organizational systems