{"id":36,"date":"2008-07-28T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadminblog.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-07-28T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:58:50","slug":"small-and-medium-sized-companies-too-small-to-get-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/28\/small-and-medium-sized-companies-too-small-to-get-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Small and Medium-Sized Companies Too Small to Get Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

McAfee released the results of a survey<\/a> last week after sampling 500 IT decision-makers from companies with 1,000 to 2,000 employees.\u00a0 The results are pretty astounding.\u00a0 Forty-four percent think that cybercrime is only an issue for larger organizations and believe it does not affect them.\u00a0 Fifty-two percent believe that because they are not well known, cybercriminals will not specifically target them.\u00a0 Forty-five percent do not think that they are a valuable target for cybercriminals.\u00a0 Lastly, forty-six percent do not think they can be a source of profit for cybercriminals.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Take a moment to let that sink in.\u00a0 Approximately half of these small and medium-sized companies are basically saying that security doesn’t matter to them because cybercriminals either won’t find them or they don’t think they have information of value to a cybercriminal.\u00a0 Eighty-eight percent believe they were adequately protected against security threats even though forty-three percent admitted they accept the default settings on their IT equipment.\u00a0 Even more amazing is that forty-two percent dedicate just one hour a week to proactive IT security management even though twenty-one percent acknowledged that an attack could put them out of business, thirty-two percent have been attacked more than four times by cybercriminals in the last three years, and twenty-six percent took at least a week to recover.<\/p>\n

Now, think about how many times you’ve bought something online in the last year or so from a small or medium-sized company.\u00a0 Scary, isn’t it?\u00a0 Until these companies start treating security as a proactive discipline, things are going to get much worse before they get any better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McAfee released the results of a survey last week after sampling 500 IT decision-makers from companies with 1,000 to 2,000 employees.\u00a0 The results are pretty astounding.\u00a0 Forty-four percent think that cybercrime is only an issue for larger organizations and believe it does not affect them.\u00a0 Fifty-two percent believe that because they are not well known, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[106,107,104,622,105],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-companies","tag-hacked","tag-mcaffe","tag-security","tag-survey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t