What Security Threats Mean to an SMB
SMBs have varying levels of understanding of security threats, depending on their experience with security breaches and their implications. When an SMB has experienced the impact of security breaches (for example, DoS attacks or disclosures of confidential information), its view of developing a security policy and implementing security solutions is tempered by those experiences.
For example, take an Internet service provider (ISP) that offers a wide range of Internet-related services to businesses and individuals. This ISP experienced a DoS attack that was intermittent and that lasted several days. Many of the ISP's business clients were frustrated because their communications were severely disrupted.
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