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The SME Cyber Threat Landscape: What We Know – and What SMEs Can Do About It

The Transferstelle Cybersicherheit im Mittelstand consolidates current studies, hands-on experience, and original findings into a comprehensive threat landscape report on German SME cybersecurity. This talk presents key insights, situates them within the current threat and regulatory environment, and introduces concrete, low-threshold support offerings for SMEs.

Topic

Awareness / Phishing / FraudEducation and trainingData security / DLP / Know-how protection

When & Where

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Tue, 10/27/2026 04:45 PM - 05:15 PM

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Forum F, Booth 9-638

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Details

  • Format:

    it-sa insights

  • Language:

    German

Session description

"Speaker: Marc Dönges, BVMW
https://www.bvmw.de/

Cybersecurity threat landscape reports tailored specifically to SMEs are rare – most studies focus on large enterprises or international contexts that translate poorly to Mittelstand structures. The Transferstelle Cybersicherheit im Mittelstand addresses this by bringing together relevant secondary sources, current studies, and hands-on practical experience from working with companies into a consolidated threat landscape report.

This talk presents the key findings: where SMEs actually stand in terms of security maturity, which attack vectors and vulnerabilities occur most frequently, and how far self-perception diverges from reality. These findings are placed in the context of tightening ...