Dark Reading: Why Small Businesses Are Vulnerable To Cybercrime -- And What They Can Do About It

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SMBs have more valuable data than consumers and fewer defenses than large enterprises. Have they become the sweet spot for the bad guys?

Jun 14, 2011
By Neil Roiter

[Excerpted from "Small Businesses, Big Losses: How SMBs Can Fight Cybercrime," a new, free report published this week on Dark Reading's SMB Security Tech Center.]

Small companies are suffering big losses. A recent survey by Javelin Strategy & Research pegged the cost of SMB computer fraud in the U.S. at $8 billion in 2010.

The victim companies were on the hook for $2.61 billion of that loss, with the balance absorbed by financial institutions, credit card issuers, merchant partners, or insurance firms.

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