Nearly half of the leaders of SMEs and mid-size companies noted, at the end of 2020, an increase in threats to their business, according to the annual barometer carried out by OpinionWay for the insurer QBE.
They are 46% to make this observation, against 20% a year earlier.
The pandemic has had a lot to do with it.
The human risk (sick leave, occupational diseases, accidents at work) has always been, in this barometer, the most important in the eyes of business leaders, and the Covid-19 has exacerbated it.
As a bonus, the virus has also skyrocketed financial risk.
On the other hand, at the time, a large majority of business leaders (68%) considered the danger of a cyberattack stable.
A year later, it exploded.
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“For a long time, the risk of fire was the first insurance item for companies, followed by risks linked to natural events. But today their dependence on information systems is such that cyber risk is starting to compete ”,
explains Éric Demange, at Gras.
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