Small Businesses in the UK Suffer 10,000 Cyber Attacks Daily
Small businesses are collectively subject to almost 10,000 cyber attacks a day, according to new findings from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
One in five (20 percent) small firms say a cyber-attack has been committed against their business in the two years to January 2019. More than seven million individual attacks are reported over the same period, equating to 9,741 incidents a day. The annual cost of such attacks to the small business community is estimated to be more than $5.463 billion, with the average cost of an individual attack put at $1,500.