SMEs appear ill-prepared for greater risks of cyberattacks as online workforce rises
Cybersecurity may not be top-of-mind for smaller companies facing looming recession, say specialists
Singapore
SMALL and medium-sized enterprises face greater risks of cyber attacks and data breaches than they realise, as more of their employees work from home during the pandemic.
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro told The Business Times that in Singapore, it had blocked 23,000 phishing e-mails and almost 12,000 malicious URLs related to Covid-19 in the first half of the year. This was on top of the number of attacks the firm typically blocks, it said.
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