Cyber Resilience How to protect small firms in the digital economy

FSB Policy Report 30 Jun 2016

This report looks at the scale and scope of cyber crime against small business and how the burden of resilience might be more effectively shared among those with an interest in a successful economy.

Recent research by FSB – highlighted in this report – found disturbingly high levels of cyber crime against smaller businesses. Action is needed to improve the cyber resilience of small businesses and the wider economy through:

  •  Improving the protection levels of the small business community, commercial supply-chains and the digital information networks on which the economy relies.
  •  Better enabling those impacted by a cyber attack to withstand its effects and prosper again afterwards.
  •  Improving the law enforcement response to cyber criminality in the longer term.