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Companies with small security teams, generally SMEs, are facing a number of unique challenges, placing these organizations at greater risk than their larger enterprise counterparts, according to Cynet.

In this survey of 200 CISOs at SMEs with five or fewer security staff members and cybersecurity budgets of $1 million or less, it was found that a majority of these organizations were overwhelmed by the endless volley of cyber attacks.

Small security teams and cyber attacks: Key survey results 63% of these CISOs feel their risk of attack is higher compared to enterprises, despite the fact that enterprises have a larger target on their back.

As a result of the aforementioned, 100% of small security teams are outsourcing security mitigation to an external provider with 53% outsourcing to an MDR service and the balance outsourcing to an MSSP provider.

EDR solution valuable for orgs with limited security teams.

The top tactics used by these smaller operations to improve processes was to invest in automated solutions and processes followed by investments in security training and certifications, consolidation of security tools and platforms, replacement of complex security technologies and outsourcing to service providers to fill security tool gaps.

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