Security and Cloud Computing at SMB Crossroads

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing may be the marquee player in IT services, but when it comes to giving business leaders the cold sweats, security still steals the show, at least among the cloud’s newest arrivals. In a new poll of 1,300 technology service providers offered up by PSA purveyor Autotask, the IT pros say their clients are more concerned about security than they are about even high-profile matters like MDM and cloud.

Better than half (54 percent) of those queried said security was the top clients concern, followed by support for the cloud (52 percent), mobile-device management (46 percent) and data management (45 percent). Their concerns are not unfounded. In their annual Security Threat Report for 2013, Symantec Corp. said attacks on SMBs jumped 18 percent from the year earlier…

In their own research, Intel Corp.’s McAfee security unit found that nearly 80 percent of SMBs or eschewing data protection in general. Fewer than half have any security safeguards on e-mail on Internet connections and just 9 percent are using device-level security. This despite the findings by Verizon that nearly a third (31 percent) of data breaches last year hit companies with fewer than 100 employees…

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