Three smart ways SMBs can improve cybersecurity
Opinion piece urges small and midsize businesses to adopt proactive prevention, threat detection, and 24/7 MDR or XDR services.
This opinion article argues SMBs face outsized cyber risk due to limited budgets, small IT teams, and reactive security postures. It recommends proactive prevention, a defined threat detection and response strategy, and managed detection and response (MDR) or extended detection and response (XDR) services. It cites ransomware costs up to $10,000 per device and an attack every 39 seconds as motivation for adopting vendor-operated 24/7 monitoring.
- SMBs cited as frequent ransomware targets, paying up to $10,000 per device for recovery.
- Recommends proactive prevention plus a defined threat detection and response strategy.
- Positions 24/7 MDR/XDR vendor services as affordable alternatives to in-house SOC staffing.
From the original article
4 min read at helpnetsecurity.com
Most of us wouldn’t automatically equate small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) with having the most stringent security strategies. For starters, they don’t exactly operate with large budgets. That means less money for IT staff, let alone highly trained cybersecurity experts .
By @helpnetsecurity · helpnetsecurity.com
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