What security spending should a small company never cut?

The items that stop the most common attacks or make recovery possible: multi-factor authentication, updates, endpoint protection, backups you have tested, and the phone number of someone who can help in an incident. These are cheap compared with an outage, and cutting them saves little while removing the controls insurers and customers ask about first. Offline or immutable backups decide whether ransomware is a bad week or the end of the business, and a restore test is the only proof they work. Keep the logs and alert history you would need to answer what happened and when, because evidence cannot be created after the fact. If the budget must shrink, cut tools nobody uses, overlapping licences and features you never switched on, rather than the basics. NetSenX's Free plan keeps core network detection running at no cost, so monitoring does not have to be the line that disappears.

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