Experts Ponemon Institute commissioned by a major U.S. insurance company Hartford Steam Boiler conducted studies cybersecurity of small and medium business. The study found that about 55% of their face with a leak of confidential data due to the low level of protection. Many organizations do not even take care of the minimum necessary steps to ensure protection, Firewall, regularly updated anti-virus software, as well as basic coaching staff.
Vice President Insurance Eric Cernak said: "The first thing you have to do a small business - is to realize that he is at risk. Companies need to determine what information they have stored and for how long. "
According to the expert Symantec Paul Wood, small businesses are ill-equipped to protect confidential data and have difficulty finding gaps, as the Internet in their work is secondary. In addition, only one-third of small businesses, whose data have been compromised, report it to the victims. Wood said that the concealment of information leakage incidents fraught for companies legal consequences.
