IT security staff at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) spend 127 hours every month managing their on-premises security infrastructure, according to a new survey by Webroot.
That equates roughly to 16 eight-hour workdays devoted to tasks such as updating software and hardware, reimaging infected machines, managing end-user policies, and installing patches. Software and hardware updates, for example, take up more than 18 hours of IT personnel's time each month.