Article: 5 Easy Steps To Safer Computing For You and Your Employees
This article sums small business IT security up very well. It is very scary that I may have some place mishandling my personal and financial information. all of the issues which I try to fight to make better in the world of small business IT. – Thanks to the writer for the great info and useful statistics.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Symantec have partnered together to conduct a survey on the cyber security awareness practices and habits of roughly 1,500 small businesses in the United States.
The results showed that while 65 percent of those surveyed believe that Internet security is critical to their business, only 28 percent have formal Internet security policies.
Other notable stats from the article:
Only 38 percent of small businesses provide training to their employees about Internet safety and security.
More than 33 percent of small businesses do not have the most basic protection of all—antivirus.
More than 66 percent of employees take computers or PDAs containing sensitive information off-site.
62 percent of the companies surveyed have a wireless network but 25 percent of them do not password protect their wireless networks.
65 percent store customer data, 43 percent store financial record and reports, and 33 percent store credit card information and a 20 percent have intellectual property and other sensitive corporate property.
Only 53 percent of small businesses have someone check company’s computers to ensure that their operating systems and security software are up-to-date.
The last one is the worst and should be the biggest wake up call for small business owners. If you own or work for a small business with 50 employees or less, I can do a free company IT security analysis of a few of your PC’s for free. (Because if one is infected or has a risk, then all of them do!)
Give me an initial trial, we can meet at your office. I’ll work on making sure you’re up to safe computing standards, so you don’t have to worry about losing all of the negative aspects of technology, possibly losing customer data, or worse, losing all the hard work you have done in building your business.