Most small and mid-sized tech and healthcare companies are maintaining or increasing their cybersecurity resources this year in preparation for inevitable cyber attacks. While half are increasing spending, most are investing in active response capabilities rather than infrastructure. Only a small minority of companies express high confidence in the security of their information, and many see serious business disruption risks from cyber attacks.

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Cybersecurity
How Tech Companies
Prepare for Cyber Attacks
98%
Of small and mid-size
technology and healthcare
companies are maintaining or increasing
resources devoted to cybersecurity this year,
preparing for when, not if, cyber attacks occur.
50%
Are increasing their spend,
and investing in active
response, not infrastructure.
18%
Policies/controls
Just
35%
Are completely or
very confident
in the security of
their company
information.
15%
Hiring
12%
Software
8%
52%
Are storing their
info privately,
not in the public
cloud.
Firewalls
76%
54%
Say cyber attacks
threaten serious
business interruption.
Of non-security companies
have or plan to add a
cybersecurity component
to their product.
8%
entication/Acces
uth
s
A
6%
Encryption
6%
46%
Say media
attention
has increased
awareness of
the issue.
78%
Say their data
and IP are threatened.
Statistics come from the results of an SVB survey about cybersecurity completed by 216 C-level executives from US-based technology and life science companies in July 2013. B-13-12992. Rev. 09-20-13