Easy target: Rosefelt said that many small and medium businesses do not believe security is a priority.
Local businesses, especially SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in Southeast Asia often find spending on security costly and unnecessary, according NSFocus, an enterprise network security provider.
“Many business owners have the mentality that ‘I have not been hit or hacked, so why spend the money’,” said NSFocus director of web security product management, Guy Rosefelt.
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