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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Encryption

Encryption scrambles data so that only someone holding the key can read it. It protects data at rest (a laptop's disk, a database), in transit (email,...

Defense Security

Defense and government security products are built to meet federal requirements such as NIST standards, FedRAMP authorization for cloud services,...

Security Consulting

Security consulting firms assess a company's risks, design its defenses, and prepare it for compliance audits. Some offer a virtual CISO (vCISO), a...

Security Certification

Security certifications prove what a practitioner knows. CompTIA Security+ covers the fundamentals, CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) focuses on...

Identity Verification

Identity verification confirms that a new customer is who they claim to be. The tools check a government ID, match it to a selfie, and use liveness...

Unified Endpoint Management

Unified endpoint management (UEM) lets an IT team configure, patch and lock every company device from one console: laptops, desktops, phones,...

Threat Research

Threat research is the work of taking malware apart and tracking attack campaigns to learn how attackers operate. Research teams at security vendors...

Security Orchestration

SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response) platforms connect a company's security tools and automate the routine steps of handling an...

PKI Authentication

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is the system that issues, renews and revokes digital certificates, the files that prove a website, device or person...

General Security

General security collects the tools and frameworks that span more than one category. It is the place to start when the question is "where do we begin"...

StationX

StationX is devoted to one mission: Creating a more secure world to build a better future. We achieve this by mentoring people to become...

Upstream Tech Solutions

You're not just renting laptops. You're solving an event problem. Every event type has its own tech headaches, and Upstream Tech Solutions has spent...