What type of data does your organization process?

1. You store and exchange different types of documents and e-mails such as applications documents, personal & sensitive data of students and employees, scans of identification documents, medical data, and others.
2. You exchange documents with lawyers, external accounting offices, auditors, banks, insurance brokers, marketing agencies, and others.
3. You exchange documents and e-mails internally - including your corporate documents, financial statements & agreements, and preparatory documents for tenders.

Why should you protect yourself and your customer?

1. Avoid data leaks of personal & sensitive data of individuals and employees. Personal data leaks can result in financial obligations, including loans, identity theft, and other illegal use. 
2. Avoid ransomware with double extortion when data from your notebooks, e-mail, and servers gets stolen, and you are blackmailed and forced to pay a ransom. Hackers will demand a ransom for not disclosing stolen data but might do it even after you paid.
3. Avoid invoice (or others documents) hacking - when your customer paid into the wrong bank account based on a fake invoice.

What can happen after a cybersecurity incident?

1. You might have to pay financial penalties to the regulators (especially GDPR, different Privacy Acts, and others).
2. You might lose the trust of candidates and students after a data leak. You can expect litigation to follow.. 
3. You will lose your time and money because of ransomware attacks, payment of ransom or time spent on disaster recovery.
4. You might damage your good reputation as an organization.