Twenty-three percent of small business respondents to a CyberRx survey from e-Management say their organizations never provide cybersecurity awareness training. Twenty-eight percent say they are “unfamiliar” with the new NIST cybersecurity framework.
After yet more school shootings began making the news, the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois decided to completely overhaul its virtually nonexistent lobby security a year and a half ago. “(The shootings) made us realize we needed to put something in place to secure us a little bit more. We may be looked at as a target because we are in an old high school building, and our property is combined with the (new) high school next door to us,” says Patrick Ketchum, Director of the Office for Insurance and Benefits at the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois.
Video surveillance innovations have changed the landscape for users in the SMB (small, medium-sized businesses) market. Improved security, reduced liability and peace of mind, along with useable video for real-time monitoring and forensic investigations, are some of the benefits now available to the SMB.
The Federal Communications Commission developed “Small Biz Cyber Planner 2.0” by teaming with members of the public and private sector, including the Department of Homeland Security, the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Chamber of Commerce.
A study of small and medium-sized retail business owners found that theft of merchandise by customers, vandalism, break-ins and online security were the top concerns for retailers.
June 1, 2014
Reflecting on the state of their business at the end of 2013, only 32 percent felt they were “extremely” or “very secure from theft” prior to the holiday season, according to the Harris Poll survey, commissioned by ADT.
This full HD Wi-Fi camera includes full 1080P video, quality at 30 frames per second, and 128-degree ultra-wide angle field of view, dual band Wi-Fi and advanced motion detection with real-time notification.
With programmable automatic locking from RS2 and local integrator Kendell Doors, however, Shanks can program the building’s doors to lock and unlock during various community or extracurricular events on the campus.
This NVR records up to 16 channels of 1080p network video and delivers many advanced features while requiring no networking expertise or additional installation hardware.
Eighty percent of SMBs in the U.S. say cloud computing contributes to business growth
May 1, 2014
Sixty percent of midsized business respondents said that turning to cloud computing made IT departments more productive, as IT personnel do not have to waste limited staff resources on managing service agreement licenses or upgrading computers with new software.