{"id":248644,"date":"2026-05-18T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:10:23","slug":"sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage : Cybersecurity climbs the SMB agenda, as AI pressure exposes resilience gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/news\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap-ce7f5adadf8df220\">Sage : Cybersecurity climbs the SMB agenda, as AI pressure exposes resilience gap<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/news\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap-ce7f5adadf8df220\">https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/news\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap-ce7f5adadf8df220<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 10:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.marketscreener.com\">www.marketscreener.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><br \/>\n          ATLANTA (May 18, 2026)<\/strong> &#8211; Cybersecurity is considered one of the top strategic priorities for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide, but many organizations remain exposed to attacks despite rising investment, according to new research commissioned by <span data-tobf=\"blank\" data-lobf=\"v4fox4ar=NTQyQxJxp0CngR9wpoKnkqIylaK\" onclick=\"gaEvent('Out', 'noodls', '53306454');\" class=\"js-l-obf link link--blue\">Sage<\/span>, the leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for SMBs.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by IDC and titled SMBs in the Age of AI: Navigating cyber complexity and building resilience, based on a global survey of 2,210 SMBs, found that over half (52%) rank cybersecurity and data protection among their top business priorities for the next 12 months, second only to growth (59%) and well ahead of scaling AI adoption (33%). Six in ten SMBs (60%) also expect to increase cybersecurity spending over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this momentum, many SMBs remain vulnerable to cyber-attacks, with one in two experiencing an incident or data breach in the last year. This highlights a resilience gap between SMBs prioritizing cybersecurity and the realities of how effectively it is embedded in day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<p>The findings point to three gaps holding SMBs back:\n        <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><br \/>\n            Security is prioritized but not embedded day-to-day:<\/strong> Only 13% of micro businesses and 21% of small businesses describe their cybersecurity approach as proactive, compared with 48% of medium-sized organizations, leaving smaller firms more vulnerable to disruption.\n          <\/li>\n<li><strong>Tools are in place but not consistently applied:<\/strong> Most SMBs report using baseline protections such as email security (79%), endpoint protection (67%) and regular patching and data backup (71%). Yet far fewer carry out staff training and phishing simulations (50%), train employees consistently or test incident response plans (36%), limiting the real-world effectiveness of these investments when incidents occur.\n          <\/li>\n<li><strong>Third-party and SaaS risk is expanding faster than oversight:<\/strong> As SaaS platforms become central to operations, security monitoring often&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/news\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap-ce7f5adadf8df220\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage : Cybersecurity climbs the SMB agenda, as AI pressure exposes resilience gap https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/news\/sage-cybersecurity-climbs-the-smb-agenda-as-ai-pressure-exposes-resilience-gap-ce7f5adadf8df220 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/images\/twitter_MS_fdnoir.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,30,25,57],"class_list":["post-248644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breach","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248646,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248644\/revisions\/248646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}