BYOD must be met with a wider appreciation of the cyber-security threat
Kevin P. Timms · Computer Fraud & Security · 2017
It seems that not a day passes without cyber-attacks being seen spread across the newspaper headlines. In the US alone, data breaches rose by a substantial 40% in 2016.1 And if you consider the number of attacks occurring on a global scale, it only further highlights the rising tide of cyber-attacks facing businesses today. While the media tends to report on the larger organisations experiencing attacks, it often overlooks the difficulties that small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) face. SMEs are often restricted by limited resources and small IT teams whose main job is to keep basic systems operating, rather than having a comprehensive understanding of the cyberthreat. Kevin Timms of Streamwire examines the security challenges faced by SMEs and outlines how these can be addressed.