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    Industry Survey Shows SMBs Lack Minimal Security

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    August 24, 2005
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      Sean Stenovich often sees his small and midsize business clients pick and choose their security solutions based on what they think they need and can afford.

      The result is a security plan that covers some areas but leaves many others exposed, said Stenovich, a principal at Dallas security solutions provider M&S Technologies.

      “Theyre thinking [anti-virus] protection, anti-spam software; not intrusion protection, system backups,” Stenovich said. “I feel their pain. Im a small business owner too. They have to prioritize, and they end up with gaps in their protection.”

      A survey released last month by Quocirca, a United Kingdom-based research company, reveals just how common that dilemma is.

      The Quocirca report, “Achieving Best Practice in IT Management for SMEs,” which is based on a poll of 241 companies with 1,000 or fewer employees, shows that less than 25 percent of SMBs are fully protected against intrusions and security vulnerabilities; most respondents said they lack the time, money and resources to be fully prepared.

      Some highlights of the report include:

      • 25 percent of SMBs, even some of the larger companies, lack a dedicated IT staffer.
      • 75 percent of companies maintain high-speed Internet connections, but only 25 percent have checked the security of those lines in the last year.
      • 30 percent have had their ability to operate affected by computer virus; 20 percent by a worm and 15 percent by a hacker.
      • Less than 50 percent maintain any spyware protection.
      • Between 40 percent and 80 percent of SMBs back up servers; size seemed to be the greatest indicator of whether a company would back up its servers.
      • Less than 20 percent of all companies back up PCs at least once a day, even though thats where most of the work and recent data sits; less than 10 percent of the smallest companies back up PCs at least once per day.
      • Industry and geography played no role in network vulnerability.

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