Nearly half of small businesses say they’ve experienced a cyber breach
Intuit QuickBooks on Tuesday released research that found some 42% of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) say they’ve already experienced a cybersecurity breach.
The survey also reports that more than 1 in 5 SMBs — 23% — describe cyberattacks as one of the biggest threats to their business. Malware (18%), phishing, (17%), and data breaches are the most common threats SMBs face, followed by website hacking (15%), DDoS #attacks (12%) and ransomware (10%).
Intuit’s survey was based on responses from 8,000 employees and 2,000 #small business owners in the United States.
Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In addition to editing Journal of Cyber Policy, he writes about cybersecurity, compliance and enterprise technology for such clients as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, HPE, Oracle, Google and Advanced Micro Devices. Prior to launching his freelance writing career, he served in executive roles at Microsoft, IBM and several venture-backed technology startups.