Check your Cyber Health!
The Cyber Health Check is a quick self-assessment designed for SMEs to understand their current level of cyber readiness.
Our experts, coming from academia and with hands-on experience in helping companies comply with upcoming EU directives, have developed this tool to highlight strengths, expose gaps, and give you practical insights on where to focus next.
Take the first step towards stronger resilience and see how prepared your organisation really is!
As the digital realm confronted a surge of ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2023, totaling 36 identified gangs, a staggering revelation emerged: SMEs constituted 87% of affected companies.
*Source: The Ransomware Landscape in Europe
In response to over 7.7 million compromised devices, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance has introduced the SME ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Centre), aiming at facilitating cross-border collaboration. The SME ISAC enhances knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and the development of preventive tools.
CHAIR
University of St. Gallen
MEMBERS
Davide Giribaldi, Swiss Cyber Com SA
Giulia Lansarotti, Muscope Cybersecurity Srl
Patricia Shields, Cyber Cert Labs
Dusko Rodic, Advanced Cybersecurity
Anthony Senter, ATOMNIA,
David Mai, IDEMIA
Oliver Morbach, Exponential World
COORDINATOR
Latest publications:
Ransomware Landscape in Europe H1
The report indicates an in-depth rise of ransomware attacks (from 112 in 2022 to 175 in 2023), followed by phishing campaigns carried out in the same yearly timeframe. Divided in four total quarters, the ongoing year has faced a steady peak of attacks already in Q1, where 7,772 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were published, underscoring once again the ever evolving and dynamic nature of cyber vulnerabilities.
Ransomware Landscape in Europe H2
In the second half of 2023, there was a marked rise in targeted cyberattacks focused on data theft and demanding ransom for the restoration of compromised systems. From the first to the second half of the year, the incidence of cyberattacks increased by 11%. During this period, the number of affected countries rose from 89 to 94, and the number of active ransomware groups also saw an increase.
