As of September 2019, a survey conducted in Australia regarding cyber security in small to medium businesses noted that 85 percent of respondents who outsourced their IT security performed daily backups as a IT security mitigation strategy. That same year, the source stated that nine percent of the SMBs surveyed who outsourced their IT security applied the application hardening strategy.
Leading IT security mitigation strategies applied by small to medium businesses in Australia in 2019, by source
The source defined small to medium businesses (SMBs) as any of the following:
- Sole trader — one employee
- Micro-business — two to four employees
- Small business — five to 19 employees
- Medium-sized business — 20 to 199 employees.
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Australian Cyber Security Centre. (February 20, 2020). Leading IT security mitigation strategies applied by small to medium businesses in Australia in 2019, by source [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169426/australia-smb-leading-it-security-strategies-applied-by-source/
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