In a world where cyberattacks are no longer just headlines but an everyday reality, the idea that “it can’t happen to us” becomes dangerous.
Reality? Cybersecurity is no longer a fad, but a vital element for the survival and development of any business, regardless of industry or size.
What happens when a single wrong click blocks an entire company?
You may have heard of ransomware attacks that encrypt data and demand ransoms in the tens of thousands of euros. Or companies that have completely stopped their activity because someone opened an inappropriate email. Such a scenario is no longer science fiction, but a reality, one that takes place on a monthly basis in Romania, especially among small and medium-sized companies.
The data extracted from the Allianz Risk Barometer 2025 report is clear: cyberattacks are perceived as the biggest global risk for companies. More than 30% of SMEs have already been victims of ransomware, phishing, or data breach attacks. And recovery costs can reach more than $250,000 per incident.
Solution? Planning, backup, and failover. Not improvisation.
The truth is simple: you can’t stop all attacks, but you can limit the consequences.
This is where the IT solutions and services in the LifeinCloud portfolio come in, offering a solid mix of cloud infrastructure, automated backup, anti-ransomware protection, and real-time failover through the managed services platform.
Whether we are talking about virtualized environments (with automatic snapshots), advanced firewalls, or proactive monitoring, the idea is to build a defense strategy, not just a reaction plan.
What reality teaches us, but also Nicole Perlroth.
In the book “This is How They Tell Me the World Ends”, cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth details how a lack of transparency, indifference to updates and ignorance of red flags have allowed security breaches to become “the weapon of choice of the 21st century”.
“The next war won’t be started by missiles. It will start with a blackout, a breached database, or a server offline.”
This is exactly what happened in Romania in 2022, when several public hospitals were paralyzed by a ransomware attack that rendered medical files unusable for days.
It was not an attack on an IT giant, but on organizations that did not have a functional backup or a failover plan.
How can LifeinCloud help you avoid disaster?
• Automatic Backup & Snapshots – your data is backed up in the background, ready for instant restoration
• Firewall & DDoS protection – we block attacks before they affect your applications
• Active failover – we automatically switch to another node in case of failure
• 24/7 monitoring – you have a team by your side that detects problems before they occur
• Financial predictability – clear costs, no hidden fees
Romania: between economic pressures and accelerated digitalization:
In a volatile economic context, where entrepreneurs face inflation, unforeseen taxes and a lack of fiscal predictability, investing in IT security can seem like an expense that you can postpone. But it is precisely the unpredictability that is why you need predictability in IT.
80% of SMEs in Romania intend to increase cybersecurity budgets in 2025. Why? Because I know that recovery is more expensive than prevention.
Security is not a product. It is a process.
True digital transformation doesn’t start with new apps or software bots, but with a secure and resilient IT ecosystem. Without backup, without clear data governance, without automatic failover procedures, all progress becomes a mere illusion.
At LifeinCloud, I learned from theory but also from practice, that the biggest risk is to think that you are too small to be a target.
If you’ve read this far, you probably understand that digital security is not just IT’s job, but the responsibility of every leader who wants to protect their team, data and the future of the business.
