{"id":2234,"date":"2009-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/10\/saas-offerings-may-play-key-role-in-small-business-security-report-says\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:55","slug":"saas-offerings-may-play-key-role-in-small-business-security-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/10\/saas-offerings-may-play-key-role-in-small-business-security-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS Offerings May Play Key Role In Small Business Security, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers don&#8217;t care how big your business is.  As a result, many small and midsize businesses today have enterprise-class security vulnerabilities &#8212; and only a fraction of enterprise security budgets.  To help close the gap, many SMBs are turning to third-party security services, according to a new report published today by Dark Reading and InformationWeek Analytics.  The report outlines some of the differences between the needs of the small business and those of the large enterprise.  &#8220;The biggest thing SMB IT pros have going for them is an intimate knowledge of how the business operates, where its sensitive data resides, and what its weak points are,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report offers a detailed look at the total cost of ownership surrounding security technology and weighs the cost of &#8220;renting&#8221; tools against the cost of &#8220;owning&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For most SMBs, the benefits of SaaS and third-party security fall into three areas: cutting down on the stress associated with managing complex security apps; getting up and running quickly; and letting you focus on your business without having to worry about installing updates,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/securityservices\/security\/perimeter\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221600951<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}