Nearly 40% of small businesses have reported losing crucial data as a result of an attack. Cyber criminals have escalated their attacks on small and medium-sized businesses, with incidents surging by 32% in late 2024.

Many incident response plans focus on what to do after an attack starts. Isolate the infected devices. Contact your IR firm. Notify legal. All sound advice, but only useful if you already know who to call, where your backups live, and which systems the business cannot survive without.

Kraven vid ransomware-attacker ökade med 47 % förra året. Ändå vägrade ett rekordstort antal organisationer att betala. Man skulle kunna tro att dessa två trender skulle pressa ned kostnaderna. Det har de inte gjort.