How can the federal government increase the cybersecurity of small and medium-sized businesses?

Countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland are developing local cyber-resilience centres that seek to bring cybersecurity advice much closer to end users. Canada could follow suit.

While some business owners underestimate the importance of cybersecurity, many others want to improve the situation of their organization but are constrained in their ability to make decisions because it is difficult for them to know whom to trust. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY BENOîT DUPONT, FIONA WESTIN, AND FYSCILLIA REAM

October 26, 2022

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) constitute the lungs through which the Canadian economy breathes, employing almost 85 per cent of the labour force and contributing to about 50 per cent of the total GDP. They are also an engine for innovation, as the startups that develop tomorrow’s disrup...

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