Small- or medium-sized businesses often make mistakes when choosing vendors. SMBs have three disadvantages when dealing with security vendors, says John Pescatore. “Since they’re small, they have less leverage over a vendor compared to a larger company that’s going to spend millions,” he says. “They usually have smaller staffs so they can’t use the products that bigger companies use,” he adds. “So, if they try to copy the big companies, they end buying the wrong products””]