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According to a recent study conducted by Neustar, roughly 75 percent of respondents fear the impact of distributed denial of service attacks on customer service and brand identity.

When small to medium-sized businesses are faced with a computing disaster, they don’t have time to wait a number of days for recovery, which is why SMBs are beginning to use the cloud, mobility and virtualization to help with unexpected incidents.

According to a recent AT&T Small Business Technology Poll, 85 percent of small businesses use smartphones, while 66 percent use tablets, demonstrating the importance that mobile devices carry among small business owners.

According to recent research conducted by Check Point Software Technologies, 65 percent of organizations that were the target of cyberattacks said the hacker’s goal was financial fraud.

A recent Intuit GoPayment survey found the 15 million U.S. small businesses that do not accept credit cards are missing out on roughly $100 billion in annual sales.

According to a recent survey commissioned by provider of customer experience systems and services Amdocs, 73 percent of service providers expect to see a 10-25 percent increase in bring-your-own device policies among business customers.

Many business executives are becoming more tech-savvy, relying more on location-based applications that allow them to do more business on-the-go, according to a recent JiWire study.

Cloud computing has been a buzzword in the business world in recent years, but, until now, many firms have not been realizing the benefits created by moving processes to the cloud.

While many business executives may associate “office gossip” with a negative connotation, some experts believe those conservations are a vital source of information spread throughout the workplace, according to BusinessNewsDaily.

The online workforce is an employee pool that more small businesses are beginning to look toward for skilled workers.