Recent trends illustrate rising cybersecurity risk for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs): - Overall phishing activity declined by 20% from 2024 to 2025
- Yet, over the same period phishing attacks aimed at services industries – e.g., healthcare, retail and financial services – spiked more than 65%
- Researchers analyzing those campaigns discovered assaults designed to resemble the everyday communications of managers and staff
Combined, these findings make services firms the sector most targeted by cybercriminals. And why should these facts concern SMB leaders?
There are two major reasons: - Per the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the services sector is the largest component of the U.S. economy, accounting for 80% of business activity
- Our nation’s SMBs are concentrated in services segments, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
In short, SMBs may face the greatest threat from cybercrime’s movement toward narrowing its target zone. How should SMB management respond to this latest threat to their business operations? We recommend a business continuity strategy that integrates two risk management practices:
- Backup and disaster recovery (BUDR)
- Maintain regular local image backups of core technology
- Store offsite and/or cloud backups of these images daily
- Sustain this hybrid configuration for rapid restoration in cyber emergencies
- 24/7 endpoint and identity monitoring
- Endpoint Monitoring – Security Operations Center (SOC) staff watches network endpoints for suspicious activity
- Identity Monitoring – The same team examines sign-ins and other authentication processes across applications and cloud services to detect unusual behaviors and patterns of misuse
Learn details by visiting teamlogicit.com.
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