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Abstract

Cybercrime affects people from all walks of life, but it hits small businesses the hardest. While cyberattacks on large companies and government agencies get a majority of the news coverage, small businesses (broadly speaking, organizations with less than 500 employees) are generally more vulnerable to cybercriminals and suffer more proportionally from the results of cyberattacks. A lack of experienced security operations staff, underinvestment in cybersecurity, and smaller information technology budgets overall are contributing factors to this level of vulnerability.