What’s the difference between detection and protection? Don’t I want both?

Detecting a problem allows you to become aware that something bad may be happening. Protecting your systems on the other hand, ideally prevents something bad from happening even if you have no way of detecting it. The two usually go hand in hand and are part of a good Defense in Depth approach to cybersecurity. Early detection of a problem can give you the opportunity to shut things down or block bad connections before someone is successful at compromising your network or systems. But in order to be able to respond, you need to have people or systems (or both!) in place to do something when bad behaviour is detected. As a small business, if you can’t afford to do both, invest heavily in protection first. Ideally your protection solution will have some detection and response capabilities built-in!