Canadian businesses prevention of hacker attacks 2017

The statistic presents the results of a survey among business owners in Canada in relation to cyber crime. As of January 2017, 31 percent of responding Canadian business owners said they were very confident their business was able to prevent potential cyber attacks from external hackers. According to three percent, their company was not ready to defend their confidential information against hackers.

Share of small business owners confident they can prevent fraud or scam from external hackers in Canada as of January 2017

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Very confident	31%
Somewhat confident	49%
Not very confident	17%
Not at all confident	3%

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Release date

February 2017

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

January 17 to 26, 2017

Number of respondents

1,100 respondents

Special properties

1,000 small business owners and 100 C-suite executives

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Question: How confident are you that your business can prevent fraud or scams from the following sources: external online hacker attempting to obtain or block access to your business’ confidential information?

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