Cybercrime is on the rise. Every day, there are new tools and strategies that allow cybercriminals to target your company's data with increasing success rates.

If you don't have a cybersecurity plan for your company, it's like having a bank with an open vault: you allow hackers to make easy money against your company.

How to prevent your company from being the next victim? You need to know the most common types of attack by cybercriminals.

Generally speaking, cybercrime can be grouped into two categories:

• Data theft

This is probably the most common and profitable form of cybercrime. If you are not insured, hackers can attack your company and steal data that is very important to you (customer data, employee data, login credentials, etc.).

How does data theft happen? It can happen with simple malware that you or an employee unintentionally download onto a company computer, with a phishing attack, or in the worst case with a ransomware attack (cybercriminals will steal your data and you can only get it back in exchange for a sum of money).