Verizon's newly-released 2026 DBIR found that 96% of ransomware victims (where organization size was known) were small and medium-sized businesses. Third-party involvement in SMB breaches has jumped to 55%. Meanwhile, 47% of businesses with fewer than 50 employees still allocate zero budget to cybersecurity (StrongDM 2025).
If you manage WordPress sites, SaaS backends, ecommerce platforms, or any web infrastructure for clients — this post is about the technical gaps that let ransomware happen, and the exact steps to close them.
This isn't a pitch for our own tooling — just the stack-level controls that matter. (We do link to our free scanner near the bottom, because it's relevant, not because this post exists to sell it.)
Why SMBs Are the Primary Target
The myth: "Ransomware groups go after big enterprises."
