Small and medium businesses may be doing themselves a disservice by making security sound so complex that they don’t even bother trying to achieve the basics. Small businesses with more money than time make large investments in expensive products with fancy names, ignore the fundamentals, he says. Background checks on employees, particularly those in IT and other critical areas, are key to this. A bad actor on the inside could quickly wreak havoc on your operation, he writes. There are many resources available on the Internet to help with this training, from video-based products to free outlines.”]

