Cyber-attacks on the rise for medium-size companies

Cyber-attacks on medium-size companies are growing and most organisations fear a serious data breach would put them out of business.

The global report by digital security company McAfee found more than half of the mid-size companies surveyed saw an increase in security incidents in the past year.

Data loss was the leading consequence of an attack and 16 per cent of those affected took more than a week to recover.

75 per cent believe a serious data breach would shut them down.

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