81% of small businesses admit to feeling vulnerable when it comes to their online presence, according to a recent study. The Covid-19 pandemic may have thwarted industry, but it hasn’t diminished the appetites of hackers and cyber criminals.

“We know at first hand the damage that can be created to a business by its website being infected by a virus and forced offline. At least its time consuming and stressful, at worst it will hit profits and can crush a business.”

“At Polygon, we have years of combined experience in the design, build and maintenance of numerous websites for our clients. In fact, for several of them, we produce all the content, including frequent news updates.”

“It’s understandable that so few small businesses have a cyber security strategy, but you can easily reduce the potential for attacks through a relatively low safeguarding investment. As our customers can vouch, we provide an affordable external resource and possess the skillset within our team to address almost any online eventuality swiftly and securely.”

“In terms of lack of tech savvy staff, you don’t necessarily need the expense internally. It may mean a small increase in your monthly hosting costs but when balanced against the devastating effects of a breach, it’s a small price to pay.”

“Understanding and protecting against potential vulnerabilities is essential to the implementation of effective cyber security. As part of this process, to ensure peace of mind for us and our clients, we moved to a new ultra-secure hosting platform, which is also used by the likes of British Gas, which employs comprehensive measures to ensure that any risk to our clients’ businesses is minimal.”

“It is estimated that ransomware will attack a business every 14 seconds, costing organisations an estimated £6 billion worldwide in 2019 alone. As cyber-criminals get more sophisticated in how they infect systems and avoid detection, the network is more vulnerable than ever. In today’s ‘always-on’ world, not having access to your data for even a few hours can cause irreparable damage in the form of lost business, catastrophic fines and reputational damage.”

“Our platform utilises Digital Ocean for cloud-based hosting, to ensure systems remain operational. We use the London data centre, with daily backups stored on a separate data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. They are all ISO 27001 certified. All our developments are built to exacting standards which have achieved A+++ rating from external Information Security scans.”

“We were delighted when one of our clients attended a Cyber Security seminar sponsored by HSBC Bank and was ranked as having the most secure website of any company present.”

“To find out more about our services and for a no obligation quote, contact us today.”

Chris Ray, PR & Planning Manager, Polygon Marketing