A recent analysis from TechTarget examines what some experts call the “prosecution gap” in cybercrime. While cyber incidents continue to grow in scale and complexity, many offenders are never identified, located, or prosecuted. Jurisdictional challenges, international borders, resource limitations, and the speed of modern cybercrime often make enforcement difficult.

The signal for small business leaders is that cyber resilience cannot depend on the expectation that someone else will solve the problem after an incident occurs. Whether a criminal is caught or not, the business is still responsible for restoring operations, communicating with customers, managing financial impacts, and rebuilding trust. In many cases, those challenges begin long before any investigation reaches a conclusion.