As Security reports, new research by cloud provider DigitalOcean Holdings finds that 37% of SMBs indicate plans to increase their spending on cybersecurity next year.

Also according to DigitalOcean, 78% organizations expect to boost their use of artificial intelligence, such as machine learning, while 35% are adopting multi-cloud approaches.

Remote and hybrid work remain widespread at SMBs. According to DigitalOcean, 37% of respondents said their companies are hybrid remote, 40% fully remote and 13% fully in-office.

As SDXCentral reports, Amazon Web Services has been telling SMBs that cloud security isn’t as expensive or complicated as they might imagine.

According to an AWS survey of more than 800 leaders at global SMBs, 35% of respondents said spending on data security wasn’t a key part of their strategy. Meanwhile, 41% of surveyed SMBs said they haven’t trained their employees around security. However, 43% said they plan to provide security training in the next year.

Half of surveyed SMBs indicated at least some worry about cloud security versus storing data on-site. About 30% said that they were unsure how to manage their organization’s security, risk and compliance requirements. Plus, 40% said their security spending is impeded by a talent shortage.

However, Ben Schreiner, AWS head of business innovation for U.S. SMBs, told SDXCentral, “Cloud security isn’t as hard as you think it is.”

As Dark Reading reports, knowing how best to manage cybersecurity risk can be a challenge for SMBs. According to a recent study by business software provider Sage, almost half of surveyed SMBs faced a cybersecurity incident in the past year. And while more than two-thirds said cybersecurity is in their organization’s culture, only four in 10 respondents said their organization talks about the subject regularly.