2024 Comcast Business Small Business Cybersecurity Report

Since 2022, Comcast Business has conducted an annual review of anonymized threat data gathered from our Comcast Business SecurityEdge™ service and has issued our Comcast Business Small Business Cybersecurity Report. Our 2024 Report reviews data from July 2023 to June 2024. It offers a window into some of today’s threats, and how our Comcast Business service can help deter them.

With more devices than ever connected to the Internet, cybercrime has become a booming business. Criminals anywhere in the world can launch exploits at any time, against any targets they want, thanks to the ready availability of online tools that make it simple to modify their exploits and avoid detection.

Key takeaways from this report:

• Although media reports about cyberattacks often cover large-scale incidents targeting enterprise-level businesses, cyber threats pose very real and very impactful risks to small businesses.
• Dramatic reports of ransomware attacks get a lot of media coverage – Most of them start with phishing.
• Small businesses can be vulnerable because they may lack specialized security resources. Even modest losses of customer trust can impact small businesses.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful and useful technology, but it also helps hackers dramatically increase the number and effectiveness of attacks.
• Mobile phones can be vulnerable to security incidents that compromise critical business data.

For a closer look at the cyber-attacks your customers may be facing, and how solutions from Comcast Business can help protect them, see the full report here.