Small businesses concerned about threats to networks
Small and medium-sized businesses are concerned that their networks could be the biggest threat to their success in 2008, according to a survey from business ISP Star.
Some 53 per cent of small business leaders polled by the firm were worried that they had insufficient redundancy built into their corporate networks to function in the event of a key link failure, while 59 per
cent did not believe that their networks had the necessary security tools to deal with internet-borne threats.
Ben White, chief executive of Star, noted that small and medium-sized business networks have grown ever-more complex in recent years thanks to the use of new internet technologies.
"With this increasing reliance on internet technologies however, comes the increased risk of a single failure taking out their entire infrastructure," he said.
Recent research conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Lumension
Security suggested that businesses need better insight into the way that data is stored and transmitted if they are to protect themselves from the steep costs associated with data loss.
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