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A Business Owner’s Cybersecurity Guide

Before YourBusinessGets Hacked

How seven costly cyber threats reach your business
What they could cost your company
Steps and tools to protect your business now

These Numbers Should Bother You.

of surveyed US small businesses experienced a cyberattack in the previous 12 months.

Hiscox · 2026 US report ↗

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US findings from 1,000 surveyed businesses. The underlying survey was conducted July–August 2025 and included companies with fewer than 250 employees. This is a survey finding, not an attack probability for your company.

in reported business email compromise losses in 2025.

FBI IC3 · 2025 report ↗

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IC3 recorded $3,046,598,558 in reported losses for business email compromise in 2025. The total includes business and individual complainants; it is not limited to small businesses or a per-company loss estimate.

average ransomware recovery cost reported in Sophos’s 2026 survey of affected organizations.

Sophos · 2026 report ↗

Source details

Reported mean recovery cost in a survey of 2,158 IT and cybersecurity leaders at organizations hit by ransomware in the preceding 12 months. The survey covered 17 countries and organizations with 100–5,000 employees. This is not a typical cost estimate for every small business.

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