Small Business Security
I recently came across this post at the Iowa Technology Blog about security in small businesses. I wanted to add a few stories of mine to demonstrate the importance.
For a short while, I worked at an ISP in their Internet Abuse Dept. We were responsible for responding to alerts and notifications of spam and other malware coming from our network. All of our clients were on Static IPs, so we were able to identify our clients and give them details about the kinds of traffic we were seeing.
Our main offenders were always small businesses. These were companies that had less then 10 computers, no full time IT staff, and had no idea about computer and network security. These were often the most difficult clients to deal with as when I called no one in the office had an idea as to what I was calling about.
In the next few posts I will detail a few cases that I dealt with while working at that ISP.
