When “Network Outages” and “Ransomware” Become Everyday Anxiety for SMBs At an 80-person R&D technology company in Beijing’s Haidian District, one Friday at 4 p.m. brought a suffocating moment: the core design team was about to submit its final proposal when the file server became inaccessible and a ransomware encryption notice appeared on screen. Meanwhile, the IT manager of a retail chain in Yizhuang was just as overwhelmed — remote meetings between the flagship store and its three branches kept

When “No Internet” Becomes a Monday Nightmare: The Security Dilemma Facing SMEs On a Monday morning at an 80-person R&D company in Yizhuang, Beijing, the atmosphere suddenly turned grim. The core code repository was inaccessible, finance system logins timed out, and a launch plan that had been in full swing came to an abrupt halt. The IT manager rushed to troubleshoot and found it was not a line outage, but rather an office computer an employee had privately connected to