Small businesses face increased cybersecurity threat landscape

SAN FRANCISCO – Cybersecurity threats are increasingly targeting a wider range of vulnerable entities that span across industries and vary in size, and some are much better positioned to respond than others.

Why it matters: Small and medium-sized companies who aren't able to dedicate funding and staff to focus on cybersecurity face a much more severe cyber threat landscape than larger businesses with more resources do.

• Axios cybersecurity reporter Sam Sabin and chief technology correspondent Ina Fried moderated this roundtable discussion event, which was sponsored by At-Bay.

What they're saying: "I think that these types of threats are now, it's asymmetric warfare, so it's not just targeting governments, it's not just targeting government institutions, and I don't think that we are necessarily super well-equipped to be able to respond to that in a meaningful way," said Alethea CEO and founder Lisa Kaplan.

• "I think that a lot of times what's happening is the adversary has gotten better at exploiting the fault lines that exist between private sector, government, [and] civil society," Kaplan continued.

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