“ Security shouldn ' t require an IT department to work,” said Christian Nascimento, Senior Vice President, Connectivity and Digital Customer Solutions, Comcast Business.“ SecurityEdge Preferred is part of our broader commitment to simplifying how small businesses access and manage critical technology, bringing connectivity and cybersecurity together in an integrated experience they can depend on.”

Because SecurityEdge Preferred is built directly into the Comcast Business network, security can be activated in minutes without deploying additional hardware, managing multiple vendors or maintaining complex security tools. Rather than adding another layer on top of existing infrastructure, it lives inside the connectivity small businesses already rely on – intercepting threats at the network edge, the moment traffic enters or exits. It is an architectural advantage that network-native security can deliver and other products cannot.

The numbers tell a consistent story. Comcast Business ' s own 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Report – drawn from 34.6 billion security events across its network – found the threat environment facing small businesses at its most active and most costly on record. Outside research confirms it: according to Cisco, 43 % of all cyberattacks now target small businesses, and the Identity Theft Resource Center ' s 2024 Consumer and Business Impact Report found that financial losses from breaches have doubled in two years, with damages increasingly topping US $ 500,000.

Yet most small businesses have no dedicated security staff, no interest in complex deployments and no path to the enterprise-grade tools that larger organisations take for granted. SecurityEdge Preferred was designed to change that.

SecurityEdge Preferred monitors both incoming and outgoing traffic in real-time, blocking malware, ransomware, phishing attempts and botnets before they reach connected devices. AI-powered threat intelligence continuously identifies and adapts to emerging attack patterns. Advanced filtering blocks malicious IP addresses and restricts traffic from highrisk geographic regions. Application-level controls prevent unauthorised software from accessing the network. A live dashboard gives business owners realtime visibility into activity and threats, with customisable alerts.

The scale of the threat environment small businesses face is not hypothetical. In May 2026, for example, SecurityEdge Preferred blocked threats targeting small businesses at an average rate of more than 230 per second – malware, phishing attempts, botnet communications and malicious traffic, intercepted at the network edge before reaching connected devices.

Activation takes minutes. No additional hardware is required beyond a Comcast Business Internet router, and no IT expertise is needed to get started or manage the solution on an ongoing basis. �

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