Standardize or Suffer: The JCHK Blueprint for MSSPs Defending SMB and SME Clients
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Advanced persistent threats don't discriminate by organization size - they discriminate by defense capability. Nation-state actors and their proxies invest months conducting reconnaissance, moving laterally through networks with surgical patience, and exfiltrating data long before any alert fires.
The reality for small and mid-sized businesses and enterprises is particularly brutal: they carry the same exposure as large enterprises - serving as supply chain entry points, holding sensitive financial and personal data, and deploying the operational technology that powers critical infrastructure - but command a fraction of the security budget and none of the staff.