The First 24 Hours After a Cyberattack
An SMB survival guide for 2026 Every small business owner has had the thought. What would we do if it happened to us? Not a vague “cybersecurity incident.” A real one. Employees unable to log in. Files suddenly encrypted. Customer messages not going out. Suspicious emails sent from your domain. A vendor asking if your systems have been compromised. A bank calling about unusual activity. Your team looking to you for answers you do not yet have. That is when cyber risk stops being an IT topic and becomes a business continuity crisis. If you want one reason this matters now, start with the scale. The FBI said the 2024 Internet Crime Report combined information from 859,532 complaints and detailed reported losses exceeding $16 billion , with phishing/spoofing, extortion, and personal data breaches ranking among the top cybercrime categories by number of complaints. FBI For SMBs, the pressure is even more personal. Hiscox’s 2025 Cyber Readiness Report found that 59% of SMEs sa...