Security News > 2021 > November > Lean security: How small cybersecurity teams perform at Fortune 2000 levels
There's a widespread misconception that small IT security teams, or "Lean sec teams", cannot protect their organizations as comprehensively as bigger security teams who enjoy rich portfolios of countless security layers, vendors, and tools.
How do CISOs and leaders of lean security teams at small- and mid-sized organizations get by when they face the same threats as major corporations but have only a fraction of the cybersecurity resources at hand?
Many of the leanest security teams today protect and secure their organizations at the level of the most tool-laden Fortune 2000 security teams.
Savvy CISOs of lean security teams use automation, rather than bloated cybersecurity portfolios, to set their teams up for success.
CISOs of today's lean security teams rely on automation to delegate the responsibility of threat intelligence.
Lean security teams have struggled with all-hands-on-deck scenarios requiring significant manual intervention due to their limited roster and oftentimes, the depth of expertise they could direct at the problem.
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