Nirav Shah, Founder & Director of Technical Excellence at Infrassist, explains that 24x7 IT monitoring and defence is essential for SMBs as an often distributed workforce needs protection around the clock, not just during the ‘normal’ working day. Nirav shares examples of where a lack of round-the-clock monitoring led to serious consequences for a business, warns that SMBs are very much in the sights of today’s bad actors and shares some valuable advice as to how organisations can improve their out-of-hours security posture.