“Regardless of their size, many SMBs still need to meet strict compliance regulations, such as PCI and HIPAA. In addition to any special requirements, there are a few security technologies every small business should have in place. Here are my four SMB security must-haves. …”
Find this article on Dark Reading’s SMB Security Tech Center at:
http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/07/four_musthave_s.html
Tarek,
You’re aboslutely right. That would be a tier 2 set for me though; they’d need to have a firewall they manage to get the log data. It’s certainly important for compliance and tracking, even in an SMB. Stay tuned for the upcoming post on policies in SMB. We love feedback!
-jj
Very nice article, let me add a Log Management or SIEM tool as well. They need something to collect and correlate the Firewall, End Point Security logs in order to see what’s going on in their network.