Employees around the world are increasingly leveraging cloud-based SaaS applications to work smarter, faster and better. However, most of these applications are not authorized by the company’s IT department. This situation often has security holes that can leave your company exposed to threats and cybercriminals.

The threat landscape has grown and evolved tremendously and rapidly, with more threats increasing the pressure on SMB security. These threats now include everything from phishing to ransomware to malicious cryptomining, each of which must be addressed with robust, up-to-date protection. To try to keep up with these various threats, organizations often supplement outdated security platforms with point solutions, which can be costly and difficult to deploy, manage and maintain.

SMB IT teams are beginning to work with a vertically expanding network perimeter. Employees now work “on the go”, away from the office, in different branches and remote locations,… but no matter where the employee is located, he or she must be protected from threats. A task that is not easy with traditional centralized security.

SMEs have the same security needs as large companies, but often less means to provide that security. It is difficult, on tight budgets, to allocate resources for new security products and for the security equipment needed to monitor and remediate threats. Instead, more often than not, security tasks fall to non-IT team members who don’t have the time or skills to keep up. It is for these reasons that the services of a cybersecurity company like Solutel help SMEs to face the current challenges.