Cyber-attacks are on the rise, and many businesses are vulnerable to attack.
The UK suffered 44 million cyber-attacks in 2011, the equivalent of 120,000 attacks a day, and it is estimated to cost the country up to £27 billion a year. Many large businesses report facing hundreds-of-thousands of attacks every month.
So what can be done to help prevent these types of attacks?
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The first place to start is often with the employees themselves. Over half of UK businesses encourage the use of personal devices on the work network, and often cyber-attacks originate through insecure connections from employee devices.
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