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07:13 9th August 2011
Businesses providing services like email or social networking should hire the expertise of security firms to make sure they are protected against cyber criminals, according to Rik Ferguson, director of security, research and communications EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Trend Micro.
"We want to see partnerships with people like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, whoever, so they can try to [prevent] things like the posting of malicious links or anything that's going to compromise the security of their users," Mr Fersuson said.
"It's happening and it definitely needs to happen more," he added.
"We're now building in protection against malicious content within social networks. The answer is twofold- it needs to be adopted by the provider and it needs to be incorporated into consumer and enterprise offerings by the security manufacturer as well," Mr Ferguson continued.
His comments emerged as the Federation of Small Businesses recently highlighted the impact cyber crime has on small businesses and their approach to e-commerce in an article for publicservice.co.uk, stating that a quarter of businesses are deterred from buying and selling online due to e-crime fears.
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