Small Business Trends and 8 partners have put together a survey to help small businesses assess their information technology strengths and weaknesses.  Upon completion of the survey, you get a grade for your IT.  So far, 1 out of every 4 small businesses (in this case businesses with fewer than 100 employees) have failed the test.  Anita Campbell, of Small Business Trends, says this means:

...that SMBs are not taking sufficient steps to develop and maintain their IT systems to prevent business disruption.  Small businesses are not observing best practices on measures such as:

• having enough qualified tech staff;
• good IT security to protect against hackers, and intrusions and other insecurities;
• disaster recovery preparations;
• downtime of your systems; and
• incident reporting and management.

Read more about the survey here.