The shameful state of business Internet security
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Webroot Software, the people behind the Spy Sweeper anti-malware solution, today published the results of its State of Internet Security report, and it makes for shameful reading. If I was to pull out two of the findings and mark them up as big red headlines they would have to be:
43 Percent of All Businesses are Suffering Disruptions Due to Malware
Over 60 Percent Don
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