Bringing enterprise network cybersecurity approaches and tools to SMBs

Networks should be designed and segmented based on security and privacy levels as well as ease of use. SMBs do not have the expertise for SOCs or complicated network designs. New prosumer tools now bring this level of enterprise controls to SMBs. This live demo will show these techniques.

Too often Small and Mid-sized Businesses are prescribed cybersecurity network designs and practices that are impractical for organizations of their size. In today’s hackerverse, the threats are coming from all directions and SMBs are often playing frogger and dealing with only the very next threat and are not able to manage the entire playing field. SMBs do not have the resources for SOCs or the expertise for complicated network designs. This hands-on live demo will examine leveraging prosumer tools for SMBs to move from the wild west of flat heterogeneous networks to planned and segmented networks where every device is known and tracked using out-of-the-box dashboards.

The authors have been designing and administering government, public, and private security since the early 1990’s and are uniquely qualified to talk about transferring solutions from these environments into the SMB realm using newer prosumer tools.