Published 16 June 2026 · Business IT · by the 365 Techies team — Microsoft Partners & Dell specialists, looking after Dorset since 1995
Cybercriminals increasingly target small businesses because they often have valuable data but weaker defences than large companies.
The real risks
A single phishing email or ransomware attack can lock you out of your systems, expose customer data, and cost days of downtime — sometimes enough to put a small business under.
Practical protection
The good news is that strong protection is affordable: monitoring and patching, email filtering, multi-factor authentication, staff awareness and tested backups together stop the vast majority of attacks.
Key points
- Small businesses are common, easy targets
- One attack can cause serious downtime and cost
- MFA and email filtering stop most attacks
- Tested backups are your safety net
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