Cybersecurity Basics for SMBs: Advice for MSPs on Tools and Incident Response
Summary
A Huntress conversation with Syncro discusses cybersecurity basics for SMBs and MSPs, recommending a NIST-based approach to security tools, alert monitoring, and incident-response planning.
Key points
- The speakers recommend using the NIST framework’s identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover functions to assess security needs before adding tools.
- MSPs should understand what their existing tools provide and ensure alerts are monitored and interpreted.
- Incident-response preparation should include protecting logs, checking backups, involving the right people, and testing plans to identify gaps.
- The discussion describes AV, NGAV, EDR, and XDR, while noting that vendors may use EDR and XDR terminology inconsistently.
Article Details
- Topic
- Cybersecurity basics and incident-response practices for managed service providers (MSPs)