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2013 Security Predictions: What Should Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) Look Out For?
- — Jan. 18, 2013, 9:58 p.m.
In 2012 small businesses globally were making the shift towards cloud-based applications and smart mobile devices, impacting the way they do business. These trends towards greater consumerization of IT and cloud adoption look likely to continue and pick up momentum in 2013. Our experts here at Trend Micro have looked at these changes through the [...]
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2013 Security Predictions: What Should Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) Look Out For?
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- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
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- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
