Understanding Small Businesss & Cyber Security
Insights from 2000+ small business owners
and their employees
0
percent
Have experienced a cyber attack
0
percent
Personal
cyber attack
0
percent
Business
cyber attack
Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by small businesses
5 reasons to act now…
Increasing vulnerability of small business
0
%
of cyber crime targets small business.
0
%
increase in attacks in 2022
Top
0
Risk reported by small business
Lack of skills and resources
4/
0
small businesses are at serious cyber risk
They aren’t confident in their cyber security practises and have
low maturity of the Essential 8.
Misjudge the threat as technical rather than capability driven
0
%
of cyber attacks target people who work in your
business and are not technology failures.
business and are not technology failures.
Cost to small business increasing
$
0
billion
cost to the economy
0
%
annual premiums increase rising to $60,000
0
hrs
lost after a cyber attack
Small business face a supply chain lock out
Small business must increase their cyber posture in parallel with large organisations to meet the challenge of increased cyber threats and consumer scrutiny.
Small business is scared and underprepared
0
%
of small businesses are concerned with risk of cyber security to their business.
At every part of the journey, small business lack confidence
- High confidence
- medium confidence
- low confidence
Prepare for cyber risk
0
%
0
%
0
%
Fight a cyber attack
0
%
0
%
0
%
Get help when you need it
0
%
0
%
0
%
Recover from a cyber attack
0
%
0
%
0
%
5 in
0
For half of small businesses cyber security is too hard, prohibitive and complicated to maintain
1 in
0
Demonstrate behaviours consistent with all of the essential 8 cyber security behaviours
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