A recent Gartner report predicts that 50% of small to medium enterprises across the globe will have been crippled by virus attacks by 2003, costing businesses and governments more than an estimated $18 billion in lost revenues through downtime and the . . .
A recent Gartner report predicts that 50% of small to medium enterprises across the globe will have been crippled by virus attacks by 2003, costing businesses and governments more than an estimated $18 billion in lost revenues through downtime and the repair of infected systems. South African companies are slowly realising the importance of protecting corporate information and setting formal security policies in place.

"It's difficult to overemphasise the extent of the problem," says Tuck. "The security crisis is a time bomb waiting to go off in many South African companies. Information security is a holistic discipline - ignoring any aspect of it can bring the entire business to a grinding halt."

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