Cybersecurity in SMEs: Where Do Europe's Businesses Really Stand?
Discover key findings from the it-sa Cyber Security Barometer, revealing how small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe assess their cybersecurity readiness—and where critical gaps remain.
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Management lecture
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German
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of the European economy—but they are also particularly vulnerable. Like large corporations, they are frequent targets of cyberattacks, yet often lack the resources for dedicated departments or comprehensive protection strategies.
Until now, there has been no systematic, Europe-wide tracking of how SMEs organize their cybersecurity, what strategies they have in place, and where the biggest challenges lie.
The new it-sa Cyber Security Barometer addresses this gap. Over 1,000 cybersecurity decision-makers from SMEs in five European countries were surveyed in a comprehensive study.
The results paint a revealing picture: while cybersecurity is widely recognized as a high-risk issue and many companies believe they a ...
it-sa 2025 | Cybersecurity in SMEs: Where do European companies really stand?
