The Power of Cybersecurity Consolidation: Why SMBs Need a Unified Approach

At a Glance:

• Many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) face a growing barrage of cyber threats and struggle to keep pace with sophisticated attackers.
• While large organizations have dedicated IT teams and substantial budgets that can afford to integrate best-in-breed solutions, SMBs don’t have that luxury.
• The solution for SMBs? Consolidation.
• At Brite, we employ an Open XDR approach to cybersecurity that involves consolidating clients’ existing tools into a single detection and response platform.
• Our approach allows our customers to get unparallelled protection while maximizing their current investments and minimizing complexity and costs.

Today, small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) face a growing barrage of cyber threats, from ransomware to phishing to credential theft and more. Many SMBs also struggle to keep pace with sophisticated attackers, often relying on fragmented, outdated, or insufficient cybersecurity tools.

At Brite, we believe the solution lies in consolidation. That’s why we employ an Open XDR approach to cybersecurity that involves consolidating clients’ existing tools into a single detection and response platform. As a result, our customers get unparallelled protection while maximizing their current investments and minimizing complexity and costs.

Let’s delve into why consolidation matters, how it contrasts with enterprise modularity, and the tangible value an MSSP with deep cybersecurity expertise can bring to your business.

 

The SMB Cybersecurity Challenge: Fragmentation Breeds Vulnerability

For SMBs, cybersecurity is often a patchwork of point solutions with limited visibility into the actual coverage. This fragmentation creates gaps that cyber criminals exploit. Without a cohesive strategy and a complete rollout, SMBs are left exposed and unable to protect their assets, monitor threats effectively, or respond to incidents in a timely manner.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. A data breach can devastate an SMB, with far-reaching financial and operational consequences:

• Financial Impact: The average cost of a cyber attack for a company of less than 500 employees is over $3 million, according to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
• Business Closure: Nearly 60% of small businesses that suffer a cyber attack fail to recover, closing their doors within six months.
• Customer Trust: 66 percent of consumers say they would not trust a company following a data breach.

These statistics paint a grim picture: SMBs are prime targets, yet many lack the tools, resources or expertise to defend their business effectively. Consolidation offers a way out.

 

Consolidation for SMBs vs. Best-of-Breed for Enterprises: A Strategic Contrast

In the enterprise world, cybersecurity revolves around continuous innovation and right solutions for the job. Large organizations have dedicated IT teams and substantial budgets that can afford to integrate best-in-breed solutions in all the necessary areas such as endpoint protection, network security, threat intelligence, identity, and more. This modular approach allows organizations to tailor defenses to complex, sprawling infrastructures while leveraging in-house expertise to manage it all.

SMBs, however, don’t have that luxury. With limited staff (often a single IT person or none at all) and tighter budgets, managing multiple tools becomes a burden rather than a benefit. Each additional solution adds complexity – more dashboards to monitor, more configurations to manage, updates to install, more points of failure to oversee. What enterprises gain in flexibility, SMBs lose in efficiency and security.

That’s where Brite comes in. Our company offers an option to unify essential cybersecurity functions – antivirus, firewalls, endpoint detection, identity management, and beyond – into a single platform. This enables SMBs to gain simplicity without sacrificing strength.

At Brite, we provide unparalleled protection with our Security Operations Center (SOC) leveraging Open XDR. Our platform distills the power of best-of-breed enterprise solutions into a streamlined, managed service designed for businesses that need the protection, but don’t have the resources. In other words, we bring enterprise-grade technology to the small business.

 

The Brite Way: Managed Open XDR

With our managed cybersecurity service, BriteProtect, our skilled team provides 24/7 true enterprise SOC services, utilizing a Managed Open XDR platform that includes SIEM, NDR, FIM, UEBA, and SOAR capabilities. We enhance Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR), while maximizing existing tool investments and minimizing complexity and costs.

Here is how we improve companies’ cybersecurity posture:

• Collect and Normalize All Logs: BriteProtect simplifies data management by aggregating logs from all security tools into a unified platform. Our system normalizes and enriches data with additional telemetry, providing clear context for activities and incidents to help make informed decisions quickly.
• Detect Real Threats, Faster: With our advanced Open XDR machine learning engine, BriteProtect delivers over 50,000 detections for known and unknown behaviors. Our SOC analysts leverage this technology to identify malicious activity up to 20 times faster than traditional methods, thereby ensuring rapid threat response.
• Hunt for Threats: Proactive threat hunting is a cornerstone of BriteProtect’s service. Utilizing advanced AI, our team conducts thorough searches through a comprehensive threat library aligned with the XDR kill chain, identifying potential threats before they escalate.
• Effective & Appropriate Incident Response: When BriteProtect detects a threat, our analysts use customized playbooks for swift escalation or remediation. The power of our Open XDR platform lies in its rapid response capabilities, enabling analysts to neutralize attacks directly from within the BriteProtect platform, thereby eliminating inefficiencies.
• Continuous Optimization: We continuously refine our machine learning engine through client-specific feedback.
• Impactful Incident Response Playbooks: Incident response playbooks are tailored to align with your organization’s goals, providing a structured approach to managing security incidents. This customization ensures the strategy evolves with your needs, maximizing effectiveness against cyber threats.
• Cost Efficiency: An MSSP consolidates an SMB’s investment in cybersecurity into a comprehensive service, often saving money long-term.

The result? A cybersecurity strategy that punches above its weight, giving SMBs the confidence to grow without fearing the next attack.

In a world where 46% of all cyber breaches target businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees, expertise isn’t optional – it’s essential. Our MSSP services don’t just deploy a platform; we become your trusted partner, ensuring your defenses evolve with the threat landscape.

Consolidation is the Future for SMB Cybersecurity

The era of cobbling together cybersecurity tools is over for SMBs. Consolidation isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a lifeline, offering simplicity, strength, and savings in a single package.

At Brite, we’re proud to bridge the gap between enterprise-grade security and SMB realities, delivering a unified platform backed by MSSP expertise. The numbers don’t lie: a breach can sink your business, but the right partner can keep you afloat.

Ready to simplify your cybersecurity and safeguard your future? Contact us today at 1-800-333-0498 or SalesInfo@Brite.com to see how our consolidated approach can work for you.