Verizon’s new Business Internet Secure bundle for small businesses taps Cisco and BlackBerry security services to help protect customers’ routers and connected devices. A recent Verizon Business survey found 38% of small businesses moved to remote work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Excerpt from: Verizon Taps Cisco, BlackBerry for Internet Security
To support this transition, Verizon Business Internet Secure protects against threats at two points where attacks typically occur: employee devices with BlackBerry and the internet with Cisco Umbrella.
Even pre-pandemic, small businesses faced the same threats and potential damages from an attack, according to a Cisco security report based on a survey of almost 500 SMBs. The report also found that these companies take security preparedness every bit as seriously as their larger counterparts. And this matters because the security industry has traditionally been biased against SMBs, perpetuating the myth that they don’t prioritize cybersecurity, the report says.
“SMB executives, IT executives, security executives in these businesses have done their best to address the problem,” said Wolfgang Goerlich, advisory CISO at Cisco Duo in an earlier interview. What this means is that SMB IT and security leaders now have to ask themselves what’s next, he added. “Where do I go from here?”
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