Cybersecurity is a complex problem. Most individuals and small organizations lack knowledge and resources to be able to handle cybersecurity challenges on their own. This problem led to raise of Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Small Office/Home Office (SOHO). SaaS for SOHO are usually offered by major cloud providers (e.g., Microsoft, Google) and present either a subset of features intended for large enterprises, or a standalone offering designed for minimal overhead. SaaS for SOHO should bring benefits such as guaranteed level of security, transparent costs, and ease of use.

Topic of this diploma thesis is to conduct a comparative analysis of SaaS for SOHO solutions with regards to real life scenarios.

The student will do the following:

• Identify a few SOHO scenarios (e.g., individual user, family with 2 adults and 3 children, small company with 10-20 employees) where SaaS may be considered a solution for addressing cybersecurity requirements. The student will provide characteristics and list all expected SaaS for SOHO requirements of each scenario.
• Identify several notable SaaS solutions currently on the market (e.g., O365, Gsuite, CloudFlare). SaaS solutions for comparison will be chosen based on consultations with thesis supervisor.
• Formulate a methodology for comparison of such services with regards to the scenarios.
• Conduct the comparison, identify strong points, weak points, patterns and antipatterns.

Related Work

• KIZZA, Joseph Migga. Guide to computer network security. Springer International Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-38141-7
• ČIERNIKOVÁ, Tamara. Selected open tools supporting security and privacy protection for regular end-users [online]. Brno, 2022. Available from: https://is.muni.cz/th/h7qfk/. Bachelor's thesis. Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics. Thesis supervisor Václav MATYÁŠ.
• OECD. Skills for a Digital World. OECD Digital Economy Papers, 2016. doi:10.1787/5jlwz83z3wnw-en. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/els/emp/Skills-for-a-Digital-World.pdf