Small Businesses Create Big Impact: NIST Celebrates 2025 National Small Business Week

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. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, there are 34.8M SMBs in the United States (making up 99% of all U. 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.