92% of small businesses consider computers essential to their operation but less than half have a network and only 14% have a full-time IT staff.

70% of small firms go out of business within a year if they experience a major data loss, however 30% of small businesses admit they have no formal data backup procedures or do not implement their procedures consistently.

50% of the tape-based backups that are performed fail.

67% of wireless LAN (WLAN) owners are satisfied overall with their WLAN, but only 44% said they are satisfied with the security of the network.

23 million businesses of 10 people or fewer are using always-on connections (including DSL and cable modem) however 75% of companies admit to incurring financial losses due to computer breaches.