Small Businesses Create Big Impact: NIST Celebrates 2025 National Small Business Week
Brief
This week we’re celebrating National Small Business Week—which recognizes and celebrates the small and medium-sized business (SMB) community’s significant contributions to the nation. SMBs are a substantial and critical part of the U. S. and global economic and cybersecurity infrastructure. According to the U. S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, [1] there are 34.
8 million SMBs in the United States (making up 99% of all U. S. businesses). Of those, 81. 7% are non-employer firms with no paid employees other than the owners of the business. These businesses, though small in size