The research, which forms part of NJR’s cyber security report: how real is the threat and how can you reduce your risk, shows that 23 per cent of employees use the same password for different work applications and 17 per cent write down their passwords, 16 per cent work while connected to public wifi networks and 15 per cent access social media sites on their work PCs. Such bad habits and a lack of awareness about security mean that employees are inadvertently leaving companies’ cyber doors wide open to attack.
This research is supported by a report which incorporates the advice from fifteen experts in the field. Here Tarun Samtani, Findel plc, shares his thoughts on how SMEs are affected by cybercrime.
“With 63 per cent of UK SME online retailers planning to increase the number of channels they traded through in 2015 to grow sales and one in four e-retailers intending to start using online marketplaces to increase sales, small companies are increasingly opening themselves up to the cyber threat. For the full article click here
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