We will present our latest security technology for small- and mid-size businesses, including management and OEM solutions, at this year’s it-sa in Nuremberg. From October 18 – 20, 2016, you can learn all about our latest product portfolio and get advice from Avira experts in Hall 12, Booth 662.
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As part of a restructuring package offers for our business customers, Avira has launched two new bundles: Avira Antivirus for Endpoint and Avira Antivirus for Small Business.
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says a U.S. Security and Exchange Commission report from last fall. In fact, the majority of all targeted cyberattacks last year were directed at SMBs.
The New York Times, in its article No Business Too Small to Be Hacked, said that 60% of all online attacks in 2014 targeted small and mid-sized businesses. Of those attacked, more than half (60%) would go out of business within 6 months of a data breach. That’s a lot of broken dreams and heart ache because of a lack of security.
Small and mid-sized businesses use Avast for Business to protect from cyberthreats.
SMBs make attractive targets because they often neglect their security or rely on older consumer security software for protection. Money is always an issue, and sometimes the budget doesn’t allow for an expensive security package.
Just recently, our free, cloud-managed security solution, Avast for Business, passed a milestone – more than 1 million endpoints protected in less than a year. From our relationship with IT admins in sectors as diverse as Education, Non-profits, Retail, IT consulting firms, and SMBs, we have learned that many organizations lack in-house expertise or resources to install costly and complex security solutions.
“All we wanted was a simple security solution that worked, and I knew we didn’t have to pay a fortune for it,” said Tyler Hisel, an IT technician in Ohio. “Avast was cost saving and had lots of features that I was surprised came free,” he said, “I’ve got to hand it to you, it’s really an impressive product and it being free just makes it better.”
Avast for Business is free for every organization worldwide. Visit Avast for Business to learn more and sign up.
Here are my five things we discovered in the last 12 months.
So there we are: five lessons from the outgoing year to remind us of the critical need to keep business security top of mind.
For more tips, insights and product information to keep your business protected, check out our web site at http://www.avg.com/internet-security-business. We look forward to helping keep you and your business safe as we head into the 2016!
Read the headlines and you would think cyber-crime was all about big brands fighting to keep customer data out of hackers’ hands.
You might even think it is about governments and cyber-espionage.
But behind the headlines, there is a day-to-day story of small business under attack.
So to mark National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’re working with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) to share free tools and resources and about online threats.
Through October, we’ll help NFIB members and small business owners learn more about some of the practical issues around cybersecurity.
We’ll share information about the common tricks and tactics of hackers, and we’ll explore the issues around Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the challenge of keeping a business secure when the lines are blurring between an employee’s personal tech and their professional life.
This week we’re encouraging small business owners and NFIB members to take our AVG Small Business IT Security Health Check.
It’s a simple free tool to help business owners think about how well-prepared they are against cyber threats.
The tool poses 17 multiple choice questions across a range of security topics: from password security to IT infrastructure.
There are also questions about what plans business owners have in place to deal with the fall-out if a security breach happens and customer, employee or suppliers’ personal information is compromised.
In the weeks ahead, we’ll share updated versions of our free ebooks through the NFIB’s regular email newsletter to members:
Sadly, there’s no way to stop hackers from trying to breach the virtual defences of small businesses. Wherever they are in the world, hackers will keep trying to find valuable data and disrupt business operations. And as Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chairman of the Congressional Small Business Committee, explained earlier this year, 71 percent of cyber-attacks are targeted at businesses with fewer than 100 employees.
So we hope our association with the NFIB will spread awareness of the issues and help small business owners feel better prepared to deal with online threats and ready to take steps to make their businesses more secure in future.
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London accidentally released the names and email addresses of 780 patients who have attended HIV clinics.
In a statement released on their website, a spokesperson for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust stated:
“We can confirm that due to an administrative error, a newsletter about services at 56 Dean Street was sent to an email group rather than individual recipients.
“We have immediately contacted all the email recipients to inform them of the error and apologise. Any concerned patients can call 020 3315 9555 and 020 3315 9594.”
In an interview with BBC Dr. Alan McOwan has said that, “Not everybody on the list is HIV positive.”
This data breach comes on the heels of a similar incident that occurred earlier last month to UK based holiday company Thomson. The 56 Dean Street clinic data breach, while unfortunate, again underscores the importance of having appropriate data security policies and procedures in place, as well as the need for employee training on the handling and protection of sensitive data.
The cost of a data breach can affect more than your bottom line, it can affect lives too. So if you’re in doubt about the security of your own IT infrastructure, download AVG’s Small Business IT Security Guide or take the AVG Small Business IT Security Health Check now to find out what you can do to help prevent security and data breaches.
If you need comprehensive protection against online threats for your business PCs, network and email, take a look at AVG Internet Security Business Edition.
There are three fundamental elements that must not be overlooked when starting out in corporate security, summarized as the ‘ABC of information security’.
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Irish businesses have been criticized for their IT security standards after it was revealed that a significant majority are not currently meeting the legal requirements.
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In this recorded webinar the security challenge that mobile devices and BYOD bring to the businesses, notably smaller businesses, is reviewed; then defensive strategies are presented.
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