The bMighty Blog -- Security

More than 90 percent of consumers think their PCs -- and their computing habits -- are safe. Half of them are wrong.

The unsafe consumer computing habits revealed in a new survey by McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance ought to be shocking but they're not.

Virtually everyone, as the survey showed, now knows how dangerous the on-line environment is. But we all know people who are confident they're secure on-line but who still

Let anti-virus subscriptions expire

Install the programs but fail to activate them

And more.

Where the consumer findings hit home isn't just at home -- these are your business's customers, vendors and, yes, employees.

Anyone who's responsible for her or his own cyber security programs and practices, or even a portion of them, is a potential risk-point.

And according the survey's findings, half of them are more than potential risks -- they're probable ones.

Time for you and your tech staff to add computer security instruction as a regular -- and regularly updated -- aspect of your overall security array.

And while you're educating, don't underestimate the pervasiveness of that false sense of security and the bad computing habits they enable. Over-confidence and under-education are as large a challenge to your business security as the hackers, phishers and cyber criminals who exploit those very qualities.

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