InformationWeek SMB: Where SMBs Should Focus Their Security Efforts
Preventing fraud and identity theft should be the main concerns for smaller businesses, IW SMB blogger says, not protecting intellectual property.
“Too many small and midsize businesses are gearing up for the wrong fight when it comes to information security.
Used to be, SMBs could borrow the strategies of large-scale enterprise users–once new techniques and products were tested by big companies, SMBs could slowly adopt the ones that provided value as the price dropped and the best practices were established. SMBs struggled because they lacked resources, expertise, and time compared with bigger companies. But big and small companies faced more or less the same problems.”
