Today’s evolving security landscape combined with increasing regulatory requirements mean organisations face growing challenges around the allocation of staff and budgets to maintain a secure and compliant business. While larger enterprises tend to have the budgets and manpower to cope with deployment and ongoing management of security and compliance programmes, small and medium businesses (SMBs) often struggle to effectively assess and manage their business risk.
This paper takes an SMB focused perspective on information security compliance, discussing how to balance cost and complexity, the hidden areas that could increase staffing and/or budgetary cost and looks at the key considerations for an SMB focused solution.