A Holistic Framework for Safeguarding of SMEs-A Case Study. (arXiv:2306.00136v1 [cs.CR])

The rapid digitalisation of SMEs, further expedited as a business continuity
measure against Covid19 impact, has brought along major cybersecurity
challenges, as it creates a fertile landscape for malicious actors, that want
to capitalise on the insufficient cybersecurity planning and preparedness of
SMEs to conduct low-effort, lucrative attacks. This paper constitutes a case
study on the cybersecurity challenges, specificities and the safeguarding of
the ATracker, a real-life data collection and analytics engine developed by the
SME Suite5. The ATracker has …

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