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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Web Application Security

Your front door is also your weakest wall The edge is where strangers meet your code, so it is where the first decisions get...

Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training teaches employees to recognize phishing, pretexting calls and other social engineering. Platforms pair short lessons...

Data Loss Prevention

Data loss prevention (DLP) tools recognize sensitive data, such as card numbers, health records or customer lists, and stop it from leaving by...

Penetration Testing

A penetration test is an authorized attack on your own systems, run by hired testers who report every hole they find before a criminal does. Tests can...

DDoS Protection

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack floods a website or network with junk traffic until real visitors can't get through. Mitigation services...

Managed Security Services

A managed security service provider (MSSP) runs security monitoring for companies that can't staff it themselves. Its security operations center (SOC)...

Mobile Security

Mobile security tools, often sold as mobile threat defense, protect iPhones and Android devices from malicious apps, phishing links and hostile...

Network Monitoring

Network monitoring tools show what is moving across a network in real time: which devices are talking, how much, and to where. They learn the normal...