Security as a service is the security programme's controls bought by subscription rather than by hire: the filter, the endpoint agent, the backup, the monitoring, each a monthly line from security as a service providers. An IT security solutions provider sells the same lines as IT security solutions for business or IT security solutions for businesses, and a cybersecurity management solution is the console that shows them all. For the owner or office manager who has been handed security, the subscription covers the tools; what it does not cover is the decision about which tools the organisation needs and the written policies that say how people use them. This page is about that gap, and the free policy sheet on this site sizes the written programme from the organisation's own facts with no account.
What the subscription covers
Email filtering, endpoint protection, patching, backup, multi-factor sign-in, monitoring: the controls that run on the systems. Security as a service providers price them per user per month, and the FTC's small-business guidance names the ones every organisation should have.
What it does not cover
The policy that says personal devices may or may not be used, the rule for a leaver's logins the day they leave, the card-data procedure, the response plan when the filter misses one. Those are written by the organisation, and the policy sheet on this site sizes the set: 12 people, 8 systems with their own login, remote work, card payments and personal devices is a set of nine policies, 27 hours to draft, 13.5 hours a year to keep reviewed and $1,822.50 in the first year at $45 an hour.
Console, then programme
A cybersecurity management solution shows the controls' state on one screen; it does not know what the organisation promised its customers or its insurer. Hardenvo Pro generates that written programme and keeps it current from the organisation's own facts at one flat price; the subscription runs beside it.
Questions people ask about security as a service
What is security as a service?
The security controls bought by subscription: filter, endpoint agent, backup, monitoring, multi-factor sign-in, priced per user per month.
What do IT security solutions for business usually bundle?
The same controls under a provider's tier names; the FTC's guidance names the ones every small organisation should have.
What does the subscription leave out?
The written policies on devices, leavers, card data and response; the free policy sheet sizes them and Hardenvo Pro keeps them.