The State of SMB IT Security: 2008 to 2009

12/24/2008 from Forrester Research Group.

Excerpts and key points to consider:

1). “Data Security is the top issue for SMB’s….Data security is at the top of the list of issues deemed important…but of the issues SMB’s deem important, 64% selected data security.

2). “Like enterprises, SMB’s find protecting data to be a critical business objective. 82% of SMBs describe protecting sensitive corporate data and intellectual property to be a very important or important business objective for IT security, and 82% of SMBs say the same for protection of customer data.”

3). “For 84% of SMBs, data security is a challenging issue. The biggest challenge area for SMBs in their data security strategies is in cost and business justification…As far as future adoption plans for data security, data leak protection will see the most growth, with 20% of SMBs committed to piloting or adopting it in the next 12 months.”

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