Don't Let Your SMB Customers Succumb To False Security

By The Business Solutions Network

Small companies face the same cyber threats as their enterprise counterparts, but proper education and the right sales strategy are prerequisites to getting them what they need.

An independent study commissioned by GFI Software a few years ago revealed the following alarming statistics about SMBs:

• Nearly half of IT admins reported they do not have the capability to see which PCs or servers on their network are about to fail. For organizations with fewer than 25 employees, this number bumps up to 55 percent.
• Fifty percent of IT admins reported spending an equivalent of three weeks or more per year manually updating antivirus software or removing malware on users’ PCs.
• Seventy-eight percent of respondents said they would be interested in a Web-based service that enables them to manage antivirus protection on company PCs.