Local small and midsize businesses (SMBs) pay more attention to saving critical business and customer data than their peers in other Asian countries, but still need to do more to protect their critical corporate data, a Symantec survey finds. Some 86 percent of SMBs here backed up at least 40 percent of their corporate and customer information, just above the Asia-Pacific, including Japan, regional average of 85 percent. The survey polled 731 respondents across the region, including 73 from Singapore--22 of which were customers of SMBs--with the aim to gauge SMBs' disaster preparedness. Small companies in the study had a headcount of between 10 and 99 employees, while midsize businesses ranged from 100 to 499 employees. Findings for the Asia-Pacific region were published in September, though statistics for Singapore were officially released only today.
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