SMEs' Network Threats: Managing Security for Internet Safety

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) doing business on the Internet and via e-mail open themselves to breaches of their network security. A recent report by the Gartner Group states that by 2003, 50 percent of SMEs who manage their network security themselves and use the Internet will experience Internet attacks.. . . Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) doing business on the Internet and via e-mail open themselves to breaches of their network security. A recent report by the Gartner Group states that by 2003, 50 percent of SMEs who manage their network security themselves and use the Internet will experience Internet attacks.

Furthermore, more than 60 percent will not even know their system has been intruded. Besides an effective firewall configuration to protect enterprises, virus scanning of incoming email is a critical security control, the report states.

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