{"id":36442,"date":"2016-05-09T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssbg.com.cn\/?p=36442"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:58:55","slug":"small-business-it-security-save-money-save-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/small-business-it-security-save-money-save-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business IT Security: Save Money, Save Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><em>A few strategic steps can ensure that limited IT budgets don\u2019t increase cybersecurity risks.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biztechmagazine.com\/author\/mark-lachniet\">Mark Lachniet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Lachniet manages CDW\u2019s Solutions Practice for Information Security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>As a security analyst and licensed private investigator, I have often performed computer forensics work in the aftermath of a security breach. The work provides up-close-and-personal views of the many consequences of cybercrime.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gone are the days when most hackers seek to wreak havoc by defacing a victim\u2019s website or by using it to host pirated video, audio or pornographic content. Make no mistake: Cybercrime today is serious business, conducted by professional thieves with impressive technical resources and expertise. Intellectual property, sensitive financial data and valuable customer records are all at risk, and\u00a0<strong>data breaches result in direct and indirect financial losses for thousands of businesses every day<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>One statistic drives home all that small and midsized businesses are up against. As a group, they report far fewer security incidents each year than their enterprise peers, according to Verizon\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonenterprise.com\/DBIR\/\">2015 Data Breach Investigations Report<\/a>\u201d; however, the impact a small business faces following such a breach usually proves far greater, with\u00a0<strong>more than 82 percent of incidents resulting in data losses<\/strong>. By contrast, only\u00a0<strong>about 1 percent of larger enterprises<\/strong>\u00a0suffer the same fate (see Page 3 of the report for details).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That reality is particularly disconcerting for smaller companies without extensive IT staffs or deep security expertise (and healthy budgets). SMBs can\u2019t afford to \u2014 and shouldn\u2019t \u2014 settle for second-best security. Here I\u2019ll share four guidelines to help small business owners understand where their greatest vulnerabilities lie, and how to budget more strategically to see the greatest results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Original Article published &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biztechmagazine.com\/article\/2016\/03\/small-business-it-security-save-money-save-face\">http:\/\/www.biztechmagazine.com\/article\/2016\/03\/small-business-it-security-save-money-save-face<\/a> &#8211; March 2016<a href=\"http:\/\/ssbg.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-03-Small-Business-IT-Security.pdf\" rel=\"\">2016-03 &#8212; Small Business IT Security<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few strategic steps can ensure that limited IT budgets don\u2019t increase cybersecurity risks. By Mark Lachniet Mark Lachniet manages CDW\u2019s Solutions Practice for Information Security. &nbsp; As a security analyst and licensed private investigator, I have often performed computer forensics work in the aftermath of a security breach. The work provides up-close-and-personal views of&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9192192,"featured_media":36488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36446,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442\/revisions\/36446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssbg.com.cn\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}