If you are a solo-entrepreneur, run a small family-owned bakery, or a startup with 5 employees, you problably don’t have the greatest IT budget. But, even if you cannot afford a full blown SOC service, there may be some help available.
🇪🇺 Free Cyber Audits and Threat Intelligence from CYSSME
CYSSME (Cybersecurity Support for SMEs) is funded by the European Commission. The program provides free corporate security scanning for European small businesses.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides a free Early Warning Service that alerts organisations when a cyber attack or data breach is suspected.
🇳🇴 Næringslivets Sikkerhetsråd (NSR)
Sign up with your company e-mail via the NSR Free Registration Portal. If their cybersecurity centre detects that your business is targeted by an attack, they will notify you.
🇦🇺 Small Business Cyber Resilience Service
Funded by the Australian Government, this service operates as a free “human SOC” for micro-businesses with 19 employees or less. This includes assistance from professional cyber security advisors, both on the preventive side and when a breach is suspected.
🇳🇿 NCSC & CERT NZ Cyber Advisories (Direct Alerts)
Sign up to get notified about the latest scams and vulnerabilities affecting New Zealand businesses. You can join the advisory mailing list, or subscribe to their NCSC RSS Advisories Feed to push real-time indicators of compromise (IoCs), critical patches, and vulnerability warnings directly to Slack or Microsoft Teams.
🇨🇦 National Cyber Threat Notification System (NCTNS)
NCTNS is a free service available to Canadian businesses and organisations. It acts as an early warning system that alerts the subscribers to potential threats, such as vulnerabilities, system compromises, and malware infections.
