ITBusinessEdge: The Anatomy of a Cyber Attack, Part 1
“Earlier this week, I wrote about a Forrester study that found that SMBs intend to increase spending on network security. I took it as a positive sign that small and medium businesses are becoming aware of the need to protect their business against cyber attacks. As small and medium businesses assign more funds toward security, however, there would surely be some confusion on the specific areas in which they can invest.
Security experts will tell you that the best way to defend your organization would be to employ a strategy of defense-in-depth. As you can imagine, it is foolhardy for an SMB to invest its entire budget — or the additional spending — into a single “cure all” device or software. Hint: They don’t exist.”
