5 Points about Wineries and Cyber Security

Little vineries, and little business in general, often lack the capacity to make their networks and devices safe from viruses, malwares and other bad cyber-things. Now the business is to sell more and more computers, smartphones, routers. But who manage all these devices, who check if all these equipment are well connected and our data are safe?

Firstly, all that is on customer’s shoulders, but a little vinery, so as a little business, has a little budget and don’t use it for those cyber-things-I-don’t-care.

But this is a big problem in my opinion, for little business:

• hasn’t a digital knowledge, and everyone can sell them everything
• has many digital devices and platforms but it doesn’t know how to use them
• doesn’t know what Cyber Security means

These are 3 really basic points, mainly the 3rd. Don’t think that cyber criminals shot only great companies like banks, power stations, science centers. The first step is to gain access and stole account and data of the weaker ring of the chain, and a little business it is.

In August 2020, cybercriminals seem to prefer summer, Brown-Forman, one of the largest wine and spirits distributors in the US: about 1 TB of data was stolen, with all transactions, emails, the contracts…