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SMB Security Slack Continues

SMB Security Slack Continues Vulnerable Customer Segment58% of all SMBs have recently been affected by cybercrime or Internet infections Vulnerable Customer Segment44% of U.S. SMBs have been hit by cybercriminals Vulnerable Customer Segment30% of organizations were so badly hurt by cybercrime that it affected productivity Vulnerable Customer Segment55% of SMBs still name viruses as […]

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Ericka Chickowski

Jul 27, 2009

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SMB Security Slack Continues

Vulnerable Customer Segment
58%

of all SMBs have recently been affected by cybercrime or Internet infections

Vulnerable Customer Segment
44%

of U.S. SMBs have been hit by cybercriminals

Vulnerable Customer Segment
30%

of organizations were so badly hurt by cybercrime that it affected productivity

Vulnerable Customer Segment
55%

of SMBs still name viruses as the most dangerous threat to their IT systems

Vulnerable Customer Segment
29%

of survey respondents have no antispam solution in place

Vulnerable Customer Segment
22% have no antivirus product installed

16%

have no firewall

Vulnerable Customer Segment
39%

of organizations reported that they or their employees have not received training about IT threats

Vulnerable Customer Segment
Among U.S. SMBs with no security systems installed, 27% said they weren’t important and 20%

said they were too expensive

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