Most Small Businesses Are Security Over-Confident

That's what a new study says, anyway -- 80 percent of small to midsize businesses don't block (or, by implication, monitor) employee use of computers for file-sharing or use of USB devices, three-quarters allow unfettered Instant Messenging, nearly half don't even have spyware controls installed, and a staggering percentage don't regularly update what security software they do have. Yet most feel confident that their companies are protected.The Websense SMB State of Security (SOS: clever, no?) study drew on the responses of 450 small to midsize business IT managers to find, among other things, that: