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A report from Sage indicates SMBs face considerable obstacles to preventing cyberattacks when compared to larger, higher resourced enterprises.
The Sage report highlights the continued cyber risk SMBs face. These organizations often lack internal security expertise or the resources to provide full time security protections or employee training.
In the U.S. and Canada, up to 45% of SMBs consider education and awareness as their biggest challenge, Sage CISO Gustavo Zeidan said via email.
“This indicates that access to required skills and having adequate resources to mitigate the risks are believed to be major gaps when compared to larger organizations with dedicated cybersecurity professionals and more resources available to them,” Zeidan said via email.
The top cyber incidents SMBs face include distributed denial-of-service attacks, data loss, ransomware and credential theft, according to the report.
The Sage report backs up prior research released in May from Proofpoint showing SMBs were being targeted for phishing and other malicious activity from advanced persistent threat actors. These attacks often targeted managed service providers, who tend to provide cybersecurity services to SMBs.
The study is based on 2,100 online interviews with professionals at SMBs with less than 500 employees in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Canada and Australia.
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Jen Easterly said the government cannot solve challenges posed by rising threat activity without active participation and corporate oversight from the private sector.
After months of feedback from stakeholders, the agency made changes to better align with the NIST framework and update language on MFA.
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Jen Easterly said the government cannot solve challenges posed by rising threat activity without active participation and corporate oversight from the private sector.
After months of feedback from stakeholders, the agency made changes to better align with the NIST framework and update language on MFA.
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