Security News > 2023 > June > Cyberattacks surge to 61% of small and medium-sized businesses, says study

More than half of small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and U.K. faced a successful cyberattack in the last year, according to a June 2023 study from security company BlackFog.

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This understanding is not complete, with only 39% of respondents saying their IT providers understand all of the security challenges SMBs face.

Many SMBs took high security standards into account when choosing IT partners, with more than one-third of respondents choosing high security standards as the main determining factor when choosing a managed security provider.

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