http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229216088 By Kevin Casey InformationWeek February 10, 2011 IT pros at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) spend 127 hours every month managing their on-premises security infrastructure, according to a new survey released by Webroot. That equates roughly to 16 eight-hour workdays devoted to tasks such as updating software and hardware, reimaging infected machines, managing end-user policies, and installing patches. Software and hardware updates, for example, take up more than 18 hours of IT personnel's time each month. While the study included larger companies, too -- its 820 respondents worked for firms with 100 to 5,000 employees -- Webroot chief technology officer Gerhard Eschelbeck said that the numbers were remarkably consistent across organizational size. In other words, SMBs are spending as much time as larger companies managing their on-site security -- only with fewer people and less money. That means security maintenance eats up a much larger slice of the resource pie at smaller firms. "Smaller companies usually have less IT resources and less resources dedicated to security, so it certainly becomes a double whammy for those organizations," Eshelbeck said in an interview. "An organization with a 100 people, by design has a smaller IT department, security department, than an organization with 1,000 people. Clearly from that perspective, it hits them doubly hard." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Fri Feb 11 2011 - 01:49:45 PST
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