With the majority of small businesses now connecting to the internet via broadband and providing IT equipment for their employees to work remotely, the need to ensure their important business information is safe from a growing number of threats has never been greater.

The extent of the problem was underlined by the recent Department of Trade & Industry Information Security Breaches Survey 2006, which discovered that the cost of computer crime to small companies in the UK has risen by 50% over the past two years.

Of the 1,000 businesses polled, the DTI found they had each suffered an average of eight security breaches in 2005 compared with an average of five attacks two years ago.

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