78% of enterprise servers are reachable over SMB or WinRM, administrative protocols commonly exploited for ransomware spread and lateral movement.

Confirmed business email compromise (BEC) losses range from $140,000 to $1.5 million, compared to an average of roughly $40,000 in early 2025.

31% of users in monitored SMB environments are exposed to compromised passwords each month.

Session hijacking incidents increased by 23% over a 180-day period.

89% of monitored SMBs have at least one user with confirmed credential compromise at any given time.

AI-driven detection achieves 92.4% accuracy compared to 67% accuracy for human analysts alone.

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool abuse accounted for 26% of all detections in monitored SMB environments.

Machine identities outnumber human users by 25:1 in Microsoft 365 environments.

In 2025, 88% of SMB breaches involved ransomware, more than double the rate at large enterprises.

SMBs account for nearly half of private sector employment.

SMBs represent 99% of all U.S. businesses.

Most consumers (68%) expect small businesses to maintain the same level of digital security as large corporations or better.

Among SMBs under 25 employees who experienced a cyber incident in the past year, 29% reported ransomware.

50% of SMBs feel overwhelmed by the number of cybersecurity tools on the market.

Nearly 70% of SMBs rely on third-party guidance to inform buying decisions.

Only 6.5% of SMBs believe their current cybersecurity budget is truly sufficient.

93% of SMBs consider themselves knowledgeable about cybersecurity risks.

Among larger SMBs who experienced a cyber incident in the past year, 19% reported ransomware

Among SMBs with fewer than 50 employees, only 47% report having a security plan in place.

83% of SMBs report having a cybersecurity plan in place.