SME Businesses
What's at risk?
A report by information risk management expert Recommind, found that fraud losses in the UK are at an all time high, and further research by the Ponemon Institute as reported that more than 500 significant data breaches have been reported by U.K. organisations in the last 18 months (to end 2009).
The 2009 Ponemon Annual Study: UK. Enterprise Encryption Trends study, which polled IT security professionals at 615 enterprises and public sector organisations, found that 70% of UK organisations have been hit by at least one data breach incident within the last year, up from 60% in the previous year. The number of firms experiencing multiple breaches was also up, with 12% of respondents admitting to more than five data loss incidents in the twelve month period (up from 3%). Less than half of these breaches (43%) were publicly announced; there was no legal or regulatory requirement to disclose the remaining 57% of incidents.
Within the private sector, financial services firms were most likely to suffer data loss (an average of 3.11 incidents per year); followed by the education sector (2.74), healthcare and pharmaceutical firms (2.65) and the professional services industry (2.52).
The challenge
Companies of all sizes are looking to new working practices to cut costs and increase responsiveness and efficiency. These include:
The requirement to securely access central information from remote locations, or to send and share information across team members and third parties, is a critical enabler.
What's at risk?
A report by information risk management expert Recommind, found that fraud losses in the UK are at an all time high, and further research by the Ponemon Institute as reported that more than 500 significant data breaches have been reported by U.K. organisations in the last 18 months (to end 2009).
The 2009 Ponemon Annual Study: UK. Enterprise Encryption Trends study, which polled IT security professionals at 615 enterprises and public sector organisations, found that 70% of UK organisations have been hit by at least one data breach incident within the last year, up from 60% in the previous year. The number of firms experiencing multiple breaches was also up, with 12% of respondents admitting to more than five data loss incidents in the twelve month period (up from 3%). Less than half of these breaches (43%) were publicly announced; there was no legal or regulatory requirement to disclose the remaining 57% of incidents.
Within the private sector, financial services firms were most likely to suffer data loss (an average of 3.11 incidents per year); followed by the education sector (2.74), healthcare and pharmaceutical firms (2.65) and the professional services industry (2.52).
The challenge
Companies of all sizes are looking to new working practices to cut costs and increase responsiveness and efficiency. These include:
- Greater home and flexible working to cut the cost of office real-estate
- Wider geographic coverage by staff
- The use of temporary staff to deal with peaks in workload or staff absence
The requirement to securely access central information from remote locations, or to send and share information across team members and third parties, is a critical enabler.
Enabling secure remote working to enhance efficiency
Introducing ISEEU™ Global Workforce Accessibility Solution
With our accessibility solution, SME's can:
Want to know more?
Discover what the complete ISEEU Global Accessibility Suite can offer your organisation, or for a no obligation demonstration and discussion of your particular information security challenges - contact us.
Introducing ISEEU™ Global Workforce Accessibility Solution
With our accessibility solution, SME's can:
- Make the most of innovative flexible working practices, assured that staff can access all necessary applications and information securely from anywhere, without leaving a trace
- Send and receive sensitive information via highly secure & confidential methods
- Audit the workflow and access detailed reports for governance purposes
- Easily collaborate with other authorities, departments or other agencies in real-time using secure virtual meetings
- Be confident in meeting Government security standards - CESG Check accreditation, including two-factor authentication and data encryption as standard
Want to know more?
Discover what the complete ISEEU Global Accessibility Suite can offer your organisation, or for a no obligation demonstration and discussion of your particular information security challenges - contact us.
