Does size matter? McAfee isn't your significant other, but believes that size doesn't matter at all, at least when it comes to cybercrooks. In a report aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs, or companies with 1-999 employees), the security firms says that SMBs need to take the time and effort to secure their businesses from Internet According to "Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB," there are about 6.4 million SMBs in the United States and 953,000 in Canada. After surveying 500 such companies in the United States and Canada, McAfee found that 52 percent of them don’t think they are well known enough to be a target of cyber criminals, and 21 percent realize a security attack could put them out of business. 92 percent of them believe they need the Internet, but just over half of them fail to realize...
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