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A Sea Change is Coming in the Distribution of Cyber Risks:

SMBs (Small and Midsize Businesses) in Critical Infrastructure

are on the Front Line

Part 1: The Banking Case

In this first of a new series of editorials from Cyber Defense Magazine, we focus on banking relationships
of small and midsize businesses. There are two aspects: as suppliers to financial institutions and as
customers using working capital loans and other banking services.

The context is the general shift of risks away from larger customers of SMBs and other organizations with
which SMBs have business relationships. Future editorials will focus on health care and health care
finance, and defense industries.

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