Companies Are Increasingly Exposed To Cyberattacks

The threat posed by cyberattacks has increased significantly in the last few years. This is shown by a recently published survey by the industry association Swissmem, according to which 70 percent of companies have been the target of at least one cyber attack in the last two years. These attacks were favoured by the digitalisation surge driven by the Corona pandemic.

The increased work in the home office opened up new vulnerabilities for cyber attackers. Not only large corporations are their targets, but also SMEs. According to a recent study by Mobiliar, 31 percent of the SMEs surveyed had been affected by a cyber attack. Regardless of this, no progress was found in the aforementioned survey regarding technical and organisational cyber security measures of SMEs.