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One of the ideas would suggest that such an organization as an SME is deals with up to 50
employees and practically – it’s sufficient to hire only one IT Security Professional who would
maintain a level of the risk at an acceptable stage.

Such a practitioner could work in the office or remotely depending what the businesses’ needs
are.

So often, such a way of arrangement could get seen as an ad-hoc workplace. It’s also
significant to mention that such a SOC should use some IT tools for prevention, monitoring and
incident response to a threat.

Finally, we would suggest to such an organizational solution to try to combine IT tools it uses.
For instance, many developing countries could rely on open-source and freeware software
which can be downloaded from the web for free.

On the other hand, the suitable societies dealing with the much higher budget could try to invest
into the most optimal solutions which would satisfy the both – technical and economical
requirements.

In other words, we would propose some cost-effective opportunities which would cope with the
SMEs’ capabilities.

At the end, we should always have in mind that SMEs are the part of critical infrastructure and
it’s highly advisable to equip them with some sort of cyber defense capacities for a reason of
saving the both – private sector’s and nation’s budget.

About The Author

Since Milica Djekic graduated at the Department of Control Engineering at
University of Belgrade, Serbia, she’s been an engineer with a passion for
cryptography, cyber security, and wireless systems. Milica is a researcher
from Subotica, Serbia. She also serves as a Reviewer at the Journal of
Computer Sciences and Applications and.

She writes for American and Asia-Pacific security magazines. She is a volunteer with the
American corner of Subotica as well as a lecturer with the local engineering society.

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