Small businesses neglect IT housekeeping

An interesting article in The Register today looks at how SME's tend to manage their IT needs, and how this often leads to problems down the line.

"A recent Quocirca report shows that one in three mid-sized businesses and 90 per cent of small businesses do not have an IT manager. When they do, it is often only their part-time job. Despite this, SMEs are pretty good at doing the obvious stuff like backing up servers and securing their main internet access point.

But when it comes to securing their employees' PCs things are far patchier. Desktop and notebook devices are the most common point of failure and therefore represent a major area of risk. But less than 50 per cent of SMEs were certain they had a backup up routine for PCs, and when they did, for the majority it was only carried out once a week or less. Around 50 per cent of the total were not even sure if they had basic PC security like anti-virus installed."

Read the full article here.