Organizations are prioritizing survival, but many smaller and midsize businesses are making security decisions with one eye closed, watching for familiar threats while newer ones, including AI-enabled attacks and the quiet risks of ungoverned AI tool use, develop in their blind spot.
This creates a difficult balancing act for SMBs. They must defend against increasingly sophisticated threats while managing limited budgets, lean IT teams and ongoing pressure to modernize their operations. Most leaders understand cyber risk, but they are challenged to find the expertise and capacity to keep pace with a threat landscape that evolves faster every year.
Small Businesses Look for Support To Strengthen Cyber Resilience
Arctic Wolf's research found that 59% of organizations are using automation and AI to reduce manual workloads, while 57% are investing in training and certifications to strengthen skills. Both approaches can help, but neither provides an immediate solution to the realities facing small teams.
AI tools require redesigning workflows, tightening identity and access management, and governing how the technology behaves, which is work that a two-person IT team cannot take on in ad...