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Why It's Important for Businesses Like Yours to Remain Vigilant
Despite knowing the importance of security and the risk that the threat landscape represents, our
midsize customers tell us that they can't afford to spend more than two hours a week addressing
security requirements. We have an expression for it: the "mid-market security paradox." On the one
hand, you have limited, if not scarce, time and resources for managing security. On the other hand, you face the same challenges as the large enterprises.
In fact, in some respects your challenges are even greater. Half of all small to midsize businesses believe that they are not well-known enough or valuable enough to be victims of cybercrime, according to a recent research report by McAfee; but in fact cybercriminals often target this exact segment. They count on the fact that smaller businesses have fewer resources to devote to security.
The current economy only adds to the pressure. At a time when you're tightening budgets and
stretching resources, cybercriminals are stepping up their attacks. The economic crisis has even spawned an online system for buying and selling customer data, patents, and other proprietary information, enabling employees to more easily profit from theft. Organized crime now takes the lead, developing ever more sophisticated tools to attack businesses through email, via websites, or directly against company networks and endpoints and profit at your expense.
A Practical Approach to Proactive Security
The bottom line is you can ill afford to do nothing. Fortunately, McAfee enables you to proactively
manage your security with minimal effort. We've developed a strategy that enables you to secure the
five key vulnerabilities facing businesses: data, endpoint, email, web, and networks. And we make that goal attainable with a strategy and set of industry-leading products designed for midsize businesses like yours. What McAfee offers, unlike any other security vendor, is a practical approach:
. An action plan with concrete steps that can be accomplished in 15 minutes a day
. A centralized way of managing security across the five threat vectors
. Choices that fit your business and evolve as your business grows, including cloud-based products and products for deploying on premises
. A global research team working to find threats before they find you
An Action Plan That's Actually Doable
Because we understand the challenges facing IT staff in midsize businesses, we developed a practical
methodology we call 15 Minutes to a Secure Business. This unique approach to security management
gives IT professionals a roadmap for ensuring a safe and secure IT environment, despite limited time. It breaks down key responsibilities into manageable tasks totaling just 15 minutes per day.
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