Two decades ago still a distant future, today a living reality: digital threats are on the rise. Hacker attacks, ransom demands and theft of sensitive data – the digital world is becoming the scene of numerous cybercrimes. And the perpetrators are becoming increasingly professional. According to the results of the 2022 Economic Protection Study , this causes annual damage of around 203 billion euro to the German economy.
No longer are large corporations the only target of cybercrime. Small and medium-sized businesses are also increasingly becoming the focus of cybercriminals. This requires suitable solution strategies and expertise in the prevention of cyberattacks.
Prevention for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs
To counter this trend, ENUR Crisis Management GmbH has now been formed – a consultancy specialising in cyber resilience. ORCA van Loon is a co-founder and the team's crisis communications specialist. The company emerged from the ENUR network of experts for corporate resilience, which was founded in 2021. der Spezialist für Krisenkommunikation. Entstanden ist die Gesellschaft aus dem bereits 2021 gegründeten Expertennetzwerk für Unternehmensresilienz ENUR.
Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are usually less well-equipped to deal with cyber attacks. It is precisely in the SME sector that ENUR's interdisciplinary team of experts has already made a name for itself through numerous live simulations of cyber attacks and is constantly trying to raise awareness of the need for prevention.as interdisziplinäre Expertenteam von ENUR durch zahlreiche Live-Simulationen von Cyberattacken bereits einen Namen gemacht und versucht laufend für die Notwendigkeit von Prävention zu sensibilisieren.
Alternative to cyber insurance
By founding the company, the expert network is now even going one step further and responding to the upheaval in the market for cyber insurance. Because these are hardly available for companies any more: Cyber cases are becoming increasingly risky and difficult to insure for risk carriers due to the growing number of digital attacks.
Therefore, the ENUR specialists from the five central trades of cyber resilience – IT security, law, insurance, crisis communication and crisis management – have developed an integrated package of measures, the ENUR Cyber-Shield: a combination of individual preventive measures, a 24/7 on-call service and immediate ad hoc support in the event of an acute crisis. ENUR Cyber-Shield: eine Kombination aus individuellen Präventionsmaßnahmen, 24/7-Rufbereitschaft und umgehender Ad-Hoc-Unterstützung im akuten Krisenfall.
Integrated consultancy approach scores with speed
Especially if hackers have been able to extract personal data, this requires not only quick action and efficient coordination of the individual company departments in the crisis team, but above all the right communication. Because that is when trust of almost all stakeholders is particularly at stake.
"In the event of a cyber crisis, companies have to manage many different stakeholders at the same time. This requires experienced communications strategists who are constantly in close coordination with management and legal advisors. This goes far beyond the competences of a marketing department," explains Hendrik Schulze van Loon, Managing Partner of the communications consultancy ORCA van Loon Communications.
Only when an integrated consulting approach, well-rehearsed coordination of all trades as well as coherent internal and external communications go hand in hand, economic damage to companies can be minimised – and serious reputational crises can be averted. Especially in an environment of increasing threats to digital data flows, new approaches to solutions and the combination of essential competences are more important than ever. ENUR Crisis Management GmbH leads the way.
More information on ENUR and the ENUR Cyber-Shield is available here (only in German): www.enur-netzwerk.de
About ENUR Crisis Management GmbH
ENUR Crisis Management GmbH is a consulting company for cyber resilience. It has set itself the task of providing the best possible protection for SMEs in cyber issues through prevention work and support in the event of an acute crisis. The interdisciplinary team of experts consists of Sebastian Reis from Result Group GmbH for the area of risk and crisis management as well as negotiation, Wolfgang Strasser as Managing Director of @-yet GmbH on the IT side and Frederik C. Koencke, Managing Director at Robert Schueler Versicherungsmakler GmbH & Co. KG. The legal expertise is exclusively represented by Dr Juergen Hartung, Dr Axel Wenzel and Dr Philipp Heinrichs from Oppenhoff, one of Germany's leading commercial law firms. Hendrik Schulze van Loon from the communications consultancy ORCA van Loon Communications complements the team as a specialist in crisis communications.
(v.l.) mit Sebastian Reis, Hendrik Schulze van Loon, Jürgen Hartung, Florian Straßer, Jan Bergmann und Axel Wenzel
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