# 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. NDR earns its place when there is a local network with servers, printers, cameras or machines that cannot run an agent, or when NIS2 or a customer contract asks you to detect and report incidents.

FAQ: [Small business monitoring](https://netsenx.com/en/faq/smb) · https://netsenx.com/en/faq/does-a-small-business-need-ndr

## Read next

- https://netsenx.com/en/ndr-for-small-business
- https://netsenx.com/en/pricing

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