The CIOs, IT Directors and CISOs for large companies have enough to worry about without having to take on the mountains of security holes infesting small- and medium-sized businesses around the globe. But a new report shows a direct connection between SMB security flaws and those of their Fortune 1000 neighbors.

In effect, this is just a new twist to the age-old and well-known supply chain security weak-link challenge. That’s where a company is subject to getting burned by the security problems of any company with which it shares a supply-chain. An e-tailer, for example, can get hurt by viruses or a trojan horse that infected a delivery service, manufacturer, CRM firm or—hello, irony—an SMB security firm.

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