Friday, July 25, 2008

Smaller Businesses don’t take security seriously

A survey by McAfee of 500 companies has showed that Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) do not take their system security seriously.

SME’s expressed that they didn’t feel they would be targeted by cybercriminals as they were too small.

The sample of 500 IT decision makers from companies with 1,000 to 2,000 employees expressed that small and medium sized businesses have been attacked at least 4 times in the last 3 years.

The survey showed that a quarter of these attacks took the business at least a week to recover. This should highlight the need for SME’s to think about their system security.

44% of the respondents revealed that they thought that it was only an issue for larger organisations and they do not believe that they would be affected.

Therefore think twice the next time you don’t take your security seriously. BACK are happy to assist with your system security needs if required. Simply give us a call.

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