IBM has conducted studies into cyber breaches that has occurred over 130 countries.  Those studies collaborate the root contributing factors that go into those breaches.  The studied countries all had a common element which was human error. “Human error was a major contributing cause in 95% of all breaches,” according to the IBM Cybersecurity Index report.  IBM further demonstrates that if human error was not involved in those breaches, 19 out of the 20 breaches that were analyzed would have never occurred. This is the reality that is commonly ignored or even seen as a low priority for many businesses.  

Just because you are a small business doesn’t mean your cybersecurity risk will not be big! SMBs have various regulatory compliance and worries for their intellectual property or data assets. SMBs need more awareness of the business impact and risk and what resources are available to effectively minimize risks.