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The implementation of SOCs with the SMEs

By Milica D. Djekic

The security operations centers (SOCs) are cybersecurity systems which are capable to provide
a security in the both – technological and organizational manner. Through this review, we would
deal with the SOCs that could be implemented with the small and midsize enterprises (SMEs)
and offer a certain level of protection to those assets.

So commonly – these sorts of SOCs would include only one employee being the part of that
SME who would be responsible for resolving the wide spectrum of IT and organizational
concerns.

This IT Security Professional could be the part of SME asset or even outsourced depending on
the small businesses’ needs.

In an economical manner, the SMEs are from a strategic importance to the majority of
commerce worldwide. Many countries including those the most developed would classify the
SMEs as the part of their critical infrastructure.

The sabotage or diversion of such an asset
could seriously disadvantage or even produce
the catastrophic consequences to the economy
of any nation.

For such a reason, it’s crucially important to
invest into a cyber defense of SMEs as one of
the key factors to their functionality and
operational capabilities.

It’s well-known that those assets are not that
highly protected as they should be in a
cybersecurity manner, so it’s so recommending
to take care about their security in a technical
and organizational way.

The SOCs could offer some level of defense in the both – technological and organizational
sense, but how could we apply that to the SMEs?

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