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Many small and medium-sized companies are careless with their online data.

Although online business is growing in importance, expert knowledge is often lacking, according to the eCommerce-Center Handel (ECC) survey “Corporate network and  information security”, which involved 490 companies being asked about their corporate security. This showed that although two-thirds of all respondent companies train or inform their own staff regarding the subject of security, only just over one third had security guidelines in written form, in which, for example, company password procedure is laid down.  At the same time, the number of those companies which give their staff full access rights to software and company hardware rose from six to ten per cent compared with last year.

Almost a quarter of all companies continued to say they ran an online shop which generated 25% of business in the case of one out of two companies. One company in ten would not be able to stay in business without its own online shop. The problem is the weakness in security. In every fifth company e commerce staff have no security-specific expertise, barely 16% entrust a separate service provider with the realisation of the online shop. The result: as many as one company in five has already been the victim of a successful attack on its own web site; 14% of these said the cause lay in factors within the company itself, for example through the careless use of passwords.
(Source: www.ecin.de)

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