Does a small business need NDR?

Not every one does. A company with a handful of laptops and everything in the cloud may get more from endpoint protection and good backups. NDRNDR: network detection and response. Security monitoring that watches the traffic between devices and raises an alert when one behaves like an attacker. earns its place when there is a local network with servers, printers, cameras or machines that cannot run an agent, or when NIS2NIS2: the EU's second Network and Information Security directive. The EU cybersecurity law (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) that sets security and incident-reporting duties for many companies. or a customer contract asks you to detect and report incidents.

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NDR (network detection and response)
Security monitoring that watches the traffic between devices and raises an alert when one behaves like an attacker.
NIS2 (the EU's second Network and Information Security directive)
The EU cybersecurity law (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) that sets security and incident-reporting duties for many companies.

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