Deputy PM and Telecommunications Minister Petra De Sutter and Minister for the Self-Employed and SMEs David Clarinval presented the 13 winners of a call for projects aimed at promoting cybersecurity for SMEs on Wednesday.
In total, €12 million will be dedicated to a new informative website, an annual awareness campaign and other innovative projects, the Ministers said in a press release.
More than one in five SMEs in Belgium have been victims of cybercrime. Furthermore, nearly half of SMEs and VSEs are at risk of losing their data during a cyberattack.
"We went looking for ambitious plans to increase cyber resilience and we found them. Our SMEs and freelancers will be able to reap the benefits of these projects, which provide both technical and organisational tools to increase SMEs' cybersecurity," the Ministers announced.
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The 13 selected projects are grouped into five different themes: organisation tools, technical tools, training and access to skills, professional guidance and cross-functional projects.
The only candidate to be selected for the cross-functional projects category was IFAPME (the Walloon Institute for Work-Study Training and Self-Employed and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises), with its "cybersecurity week" project. It will receive a sum of €156,650.
