Cybersecurity Categories Explained for Small Businesses

PCDrama’s field guide to the security market. Thirty-four categories, from antivirus to zero trust, each in plain English with the vendors that sell them.

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Annual Loss Expectancy

Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE) is the number you show leadership when "we should probably fix that" isn't persuasive enough. This is cyber risk...

Artificial Cleverness

Smart Tools, Sharper Risks: Welcome to Artificial Cleverness Artificial cleverness serves when it moves the work forward: drafting replies, triaging...

ArkCybr

ArkCybr is a managed cybersecurity platform that wraps the full Microsoft 365 Business Premium stack (Defender, Intune, and Entra ID, with all the...

Endpoint Security

Endpoint security is the software that watches the devices people work on: laptops, desktops, phones and servers. Antivirus blocks known malware,...

Network Security

Network security controls which traffic may enter, leave and cross a company's network. A firewall enforces the rules at the border, an intrusion...

Cloud Security

Cloud security covers the data, settings and workloads a company runs in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. A CASB (cloud access security broker) polices how...

Fraud Detection

Fraud prevention and detection solutions using behavioral analytics, machine learning, and real-time monitoring. Protect against account takeover,...

Identity & Access Management

Identity and access management (IAM) decides who can sign in and what they can reach once they do. Single sign-on (SSO) gives staff one login for many...

SIEM

A SIEM (security information and event management) platform collects logs from servers, firewalls, laptops and cloud apps, then correlates them to...

Threat Intelligence

Threat intelligence is curated information about who is attacking, which tools they use and which organizations they go after. It arrives as feeds...

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management is the routine of finding security flaws in software and devices, ranking them by risk, and fixing the worst first. A scanner...