The top SME security worries for 2025

Smaller businesses are just as vulnerable to cybersecurity issues as larger ones, more so in some cases as they have fewer resources to devote to protection. New research from UK cloud services firm Six Degrees looks at the concerns of UK SMEs. It finds 35 percent cite AI-related threats as their top concern, outranking malware (25 percent), scams and other fraud (25 percent), phishing (25 percent), and ransomware (23 percent). Other threats outside the top five, such as insider threat, zero-day vulnerabilities, and denial-of-service attacks, still present a significant danger. 'SMEs should definitely be concerned about AI-generated cyber-attacks, but that… [Continue Reading]