Start your own SME Cybersecurity health-check

Check your cybersecurity skills to protect your SME better and get a certificate of completion issued by 4 European projects

In the modern business world, cybersecurity has quickly become one of the key challenges facing IT companies, especially small firms that need to remain competitive in their markets to stay alive.

Cyber-attacks such as data breaches, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and ransomware are increasing, and the consequences can be significant for any organisation, from financial losses to damaged reputations. Despite the fact that large companies have increased their budget allocation to face cybersecurity when it comes to SMEs, it is still very hard for them to implement efficient security measures. Security measures are usually perceived as too complex, time-consuming, and requiring a high level of technical knowledge.

Despite a lot of potential tools to help to protect SMEs, all cybersecurity can be breached if the person does not understand a minimum of information to control the cybersecurity integrity in an SME.


It is important for you to be aware of the main concepts of cybersecurity protection.

The “ SME cybersecurity best practice quiz” is specifically designed to tackle this issue, helping companies staff to increase awareness about basic security guidelines to be applied in their day-to-day routine. By answering a set of questions through a quick and straightforward online self-assessment, SMEs can easily understand where they stand in terms of their cybersecurity posture. The tool quickly helps SMEs to pinpoint security gaps and best practices that should be regularly followed through in terms of: The “ SME cybersecurity best practice quiz” is available free of charge and can be completed in less than 15 minutes. Measure your cybersecurity awareness skill, pinpoint your security gaps, and implement the best practices to avoid being a victim of a cyber-attack.

About our cybersecurity quiz

The quiz was developed as a joint effort by four H2020 initiatives, namely CyberSec4Europe, Cyberwatching.eu, CYBERWISER.eu, and SMESEC. All four initiatives are tackling cybersecurity and privacy from complementary perspectives, with the aim of providing European SMEs with key resources to boost their online security. Beyond the quiz, each project provides a set of cybersecurity tools to increase SMEs online security: