This document discusses how taking an enterprise approach can benefit small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It outlines key areas such as networking, security, collaboration, virtualization, and budgeting that SMBs should consider from an enterprise perspective. The document provides examples of specific tools that can help SMBs implement enterprise-level strategies in each of these areas while still meeting the needs of a smaller organization.

1. Taking an Enterprise
Approach in a SMB World
Jeffrey Shuron
Director of Information Technology
Sports Physical Therapy of NY, PC

2. Introduction
•Quick Background
•Why enterprise thinking is vital to SPTNY

3. What is taking an Enterprise
view to your SMB?
• Differences vs. Similarities
• What are we purchasing?
• How to level the playing field
• What are we???

4. Networking
• Design
• Build with the future in mind
• Redundancy / Backup
• VoIP
• Tools
– SpiceWorks (of course!)
– Wireshark
– Netstumbler

5. Networking
• Tools
– Kiwi Syslog Server
– Wingrep
– Cacti – bandwidth monitoring now
included in SpiceWorks!

6. Security
• User education
• Security “baked in”
• Mobile devices
• WSUS
• Tools
– Metasploit Framework
– Nessus
– L0phtcrack / John the Ripper
– Nmap

7. Security
• Tools
– Dsniff
• IPS/IDS
– Commercial (Cisco, ISS, etc.)
– Snort
• Top 100 Security Tools
– SecTools

8. Security
• Web and Spam filtering
– Barracuda / Squid / OpenDNS
– Barracuda / Exchange IMF
Security

9. Collaboration
• Blackberry -BESX
• iPhone – Active Sync
• dotProject
• SharePoint
– Windows Rights Management

10. Virtualization
• Why virtualize?
• Where to start?
• Design your virtual network
– SAN / NAS
– OpenFiler
– VMware / Hyper-V / Citrix
• VDI – stay tuned…

11. “A seat on the board”
• When do you have input?
• Budgeting
• Get in the game
• 7 options
• ROI

12. Valuable Resources
• SpiceWorks community
• Vendors
• User Groups
• Social Networking (Linkedin)
• Read, Read, Read

13. Always leave them SMILING

14. Questions?