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Cost-Effective Permanent Audit Trails for Securing SME Systems when Adopting Mobile Technologies

Authors:
Bob Duncan
Magnus Westerlund

Keywords: SMEs, mobile devices, cloud security, audit trails

Abstract:
Cyber security for SMEs is a challenging activity. Since large corporations started to improve their cyber security process and strategies, this has made life considerably more challenging for attackers. This has resulted in a change of approach by attackers to pursuing SMEs. They have found such companies to be far less focused on achieving really tight systems that are difficult to penetrate, to the extent that they would rather attack SMEs than large corporations. This is an important problem to deal with, because while large corporations who get successfully breached find the result expensive and time consuming to rectify, they usually have adequate reserves and resources to survive. This is seldom the case for SMEs, and up to 50% of successful breaches on SMEs can result in their bankruptcy. However, since SMEs have neither the reserves, resources nor sufficient skill levels of employees to help them deal with this difficult challenge, they are left at a considerable disadvantage. We propose a simple, economic approach that can improve security, ensure retention of a full forensic trail, all within their financial means.

Pages: 13 to 17

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: April 24, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-948-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2022