Almost 3.5 million small and medium-sized companies in Germany offer countless targets for industrial espionage and cyber attacks. Is your company adequately protected? For the first time, the “Situation Report on Economic Protection” offers a representative and comprehensive overview of the level of protection at SMEs in North Rhine-Westphalia and its basic orientation can certainly be transferred to the situation in other federal states. In which areas are companies good and in which less well positioned? How can significant improvements be achieved with little effort? And why is a holistic view crucial? The situation report provides important approaches for optimizing economic protection as well as for the company's own assessment and classification.