Cybersecurity was built for enterprises. Gaurav Keerthi explains what that leaves behind for the companies without a cyber team, and why their exposure becomes everyone else’s problem.

Gaurav, CEO of StrongKeep and a cybersecurity leader in the public and private sectors, joins Joe Patti and Adam Roth to break down why smaller organizations are still expected to buy, operate, and manage enterprise-style security. They discuss supply-chain risk, the “hopes and prayers” gap, cybersecurity’s IKEA problem, and what a usable baseline could look like for ordinary companies.

Episode Takeaways:

Most organizations do not have a dedicated cybersecurity professional.
Enterprise security programs cannot fully protect an organization when exposed suppliers remain unprotected.
Security products need to be simpler, more bundled, and more realistic for companies without specialist teams.
Doing something proportionate is better than doing nothing while waiting for a perfect plan.

Guest:

- Gaurav Keerthi, CEO, StrongKeep

- LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-keerthi

- StrongKeep: https://www.strongkeep.com/

Resources:

- CyCon: https://cycon.org/

- NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence: https://ccdcoe.org/

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