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MessageLabs Small Business Survey Results, Vanson Bourne March 29, 2007
Recent research conducted by Vanson Bourne, on behalf of MessageLabs, reveals that security breaches are most often caused by junior sales men and women between the ages of 26-35 years old, who are tech savvy and multi-task with applications such as email, instant messenger, VoIP, and the web without realizing the potential dangers of dividing their concentration levels so thin. Less than half of US businesses provide adequate security training for their employees. Without proper protection, organizations are turning their best assets into IT security risks which could cause sudden and unexpected breaches.
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and find out more information on the internal weaknesses small businesses must manage to mitigate the risks of internal and external threats.
MessageLabs Intelligence: Q1 2007 Small Business Under Fire
Quarter on quarter spam levels have raised to 76.3 percent, their highest in two years. Virus and botnet activity has also increased. The report highlights the impact of increased spam levels on small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) as these organizations receive more than double the volume of spam per user each month than in enterprise organizations.
While spam levels for the month of March decreased by 2.6 percent from February, MessageLabs saw an overall increase in spam for the first quarter of 2007. Spammers do not distinguish between the sizes of organizations being targeted; smaller businesses will receive just as much spam as larger enterprises but are less likely to have defense systems in place. For small businesses, spam can very quickly become a silent killer, overwhelming the resources of the mail system before any effective countermeasures can be enforced.
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SMBs in a Connected World: Business Success Means Facing New IT Security Threats
New global research conducted by IDC and sponsored by MessageLabs and McAfee, reveals that the majority of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) believe an IT security breach would be detrimental in achieving their business priorities, however few are overtly proactive in their fight against infringements due to resource restrictions through other business related priorities. IDC found that 80 percent of the 450 SMB IT decision makers interviewed feared an IT security threat, such as an email virus, however a proactive approach is prohibited through senior SMB IT professionals being more ‘business-orientated’ than enterprise CIOs and thus tending to be highly involved in the company’s daily business achievement. The IDC research indicates that company size plays an important role in the way that senior management views security.
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