摘要: |
Car retailers have been told "there is no silver bullet" in the fight to avoid potentially devastating data-grabbing cyberattacks as high-profile AM100 businesses continue to recover from hits on their digital systems. Layers of digital defences, business-wide awareness and constant vigilance were prescribed as the essential tools to mitigate against the threat to a sector that has become increasingly digital and ever-more appealing to cyber criminals. Melanie Oldham OBE, the founder and chief executive of cyber security awareness training company Bob's Business and chair of the Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster, said cybercrime poses a threat not only to customer data, but to dealers' entire ability to trade. "A breach can have huge financial and reputational issues for dealers," she told AM. "For smaller dealerships and groups, it could be the end of their business: 60% of small businesses close within six months of a breach." |