Small & Midsized Companies Targeted by Cybercime, Too
A significant number of SMBs think they are too small to be of interest to cybercriminals but that misses the point. It isn't a matter of being "of interest", its a matter of can a bot herder control your computers or can a piece of malware infect your device. We all get spam because the marginal cost of sending it is less than the potential payoff, the same goes for some forms of cybercrime.
A recent report from McAfee (sponsor of this site) called "Does Size Matter?" found:
* 35% of SMBs are "not concerned" about being a target for cybercrime
* 52% don't think they are well known enough to be a target for cybercriminals
* 45% of SMBs do not think they are a valuable target for cybercriminals
* 46% do not think they could make a cybercriminal any money
* 44% of SMBs think cybercrime is an issue for larger companies
A sense that you are too small to matter to cybercriminals doesn't help protect your assets:
just over one in five (21 percent) of businesses have suffered an IT security attack. A third of those businesses (32 percent) have suffered more than four IT security attacks in the last three years
Not all attackers are discriminating and networked devices with poor security are commodities for their picking.
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