Cloud computing, along with mobile technologies, benefits small businesses in many ways – increased productivity, lowered IT costs, enhanced innovation, and many more. Unfortunately, bringing your data and business functions to the cloud also pose them to a threat that has been around for so long but still prevail: Online security.

The stats are not too encouraging: Small and medium businesses (SMBs) lack of proper security issues and in-house expertise cause security issues among SMBs a major concern. To worsen things, SMBs also behind their larger counterparts in educating staffs and enforcing strict policies for staffs to follow in order to prevent hacks, data breaches and other online security problems.

Those are something small business decision makers need to address, as online security problems will only continue to be prevalent in the near future. Megapath, one of the largest data, voice and security providers, released an infographic that you can use as a guideline in stepping up your small business’ security efforts – check out this useful infographic:

Via MegaPath