Canadians have 'naive belief' hackers won't target them: Trustwave

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http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/canadians-have-naive-belief-hackers-wont-target-them-trustwave/43991

By Candice So
itbusiness.ca
October 8th, 2013

Small businesses worried about their IT need to find better ways to guard 
their data -- especially as they present easy, unsecured targets, with 
hackers levelling their sights at them.

Contrary to what small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) often believe, 
hackers often go for them since they're low-hanging fruit, said 
Christopher Pogue, director of SpiderLabs at Trustwave Holdings, an 
information security company based in Chicago.

And coupled with the fact many Canadians feel they're not a target for 
hackers, as opposed to the U.S., our more high-profile neighbour to the 
south, Canadian SMBs just aren't putting in their due diligence when it 
comes to protecting their data, he said.

"There's this naive belief that it's not going to happen to me... that 
we're Canadians, we're not targets. Yeah, you are," said Pogue in an 
interview at Sector 2013, a security conference held in downtown Toronto 
on Oct. 8.

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