They may be better targets for financial gain than individuals
They may have more valuable information, such as personal information and employee data, than individuals.
Some businesses might not maintain up-to-date cybersecurity for their data.
Their employees often are easy targets for phishing emails.
Cybercrime has increased by 600% since the COVID-19 pandemic.
MacOS malware has grown by 165% in the past year.
Email is used to deliver 92% of malware.
Of information security professionals, 50% say their companies are unprepared to resist a ransomware attack.
One-third of businesses attacked by malware took at least a week to recover their data.
Three in four companies that become infected by malware had up-to-date endpoint protection.
The average business spends $133,000 on a ransomware attack.
Ransomware costs companies more than $75 billion every year.
A business will be the victim of ransomware every 11 seconds this year.
Newly hired employees present the most risk from socially engineered attacks such as phishing.
Of IT professionals, 56% name targeted phishing as their top threat to security.
Users open 30% of phishing messages; 12% of them wind up clicking on the malicious link or attachment.
Ransomware attacks are increasing by more than 350% every year.
Of small businesses, 47% have had at least one cyberattack in the last year; 44% of those experienced two to four attacks.
Seven in 10 businesses are not prepared to address a cyberattack.
Two-thirds of businesses with more than 500 users never ask their employees to change their passwords.
Two-thirds of small businesses say they are “very concerned” about cybersecurity.
Six out of 10 small businesses go under within six months of a cyberattack.