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Hackers, cyber criminals and identity thieves — oh my! When you became a small business owner, chances are you didn’t know you were signing up for the likes of them. In fact, according to a study conducted by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec, 77 percent of U.S. small business owners like you think their companies are safe from cyber attack. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case.

One big reason that businesses are vulnerable to attack is that they have vital information to protect, including financial records and reports, personally-identifying customer data and employee records, and intellectual property. And yet, 77 percent of the businesses surveyed do not have a formal written Internet security policy, 63 percent do not have policies regarding how their employees use social media, 45 percent do not provide Internet safety training to their employees and 59 percent say they do not require any multi-factor authentication for access to their networks.

In other words, a vast majority of small businesses in this country are just one data breach incident away from disaster, and they’re doing practically nothing to avoid it.

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