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Infographic: IT and Cybersecurity Trends for Small Businesses in Canada
CDW’s 2025 Canadian Cybersecurity Study found that small businesses face cybersecurity challenges due to limited resources. SMBs often prioritize cost-effective solutions but struggle with data privacy and skilled personnel shortages.
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Small Business Security Budgets and Resources
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of small businesses report IT security budgets cover only essential operations.
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Small Business Cloud Security Investment
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Cloud security investment grew from 12.17% in 2023 to 18.57% in 2025.
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Cyberattack Frequency
Small organizations experienced an increase in cyberattacks, rising from 259 in 2024 to 276 in 2025, which is higher than the overall average for Canadian organizations of 241 incidents per year.
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Small Business Cloud Security Investment
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of small businesses have implemented zero trust, which is much lower than the overall average for Canadian organizations (74.4%).
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Incident Detection and Recovery
Detection times for small organizations rose from 4.0 days in 2024 to 6.8 days in 2025.
Incident response time increased from 10.9 days to 13.3 days, reflecting limited security staff and slow remediation processes.
Recovery time grew to 25.7 days, indicating challenges in post-incident recovery and system resilience.
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Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
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of small businesses have adopted MDR, with 42.9% planning to adopt within 12 months.
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Security Testing
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of small businesses either do not have a security testing schedule or only do it annually.
0%
of small businesses perform continuous testing.
0%
conduct web application penetration testing.
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GenAI Adoption Barriers
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of small businesses cite data privacy and compliance challenges.
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mention a lack of skilled resources to operationalize GenAI models.
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mention difficulty in integrating GenAI models with existing business systems.
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Security Frameworks Relevant to Small Businesses
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NIST CSF
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ISO 2700x
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