This white paper written by Patrick Donegan, Chief Analyst at Heavy Reading focuses on the different security needs and priorities for Small ISPs when compared to the Tier-One brethren.
The world of communications services tends to look quite different from the perspective of large, household-name Internet service providers (ISPs), on the one hand, and smaller ISPs on the other. Large ISPs are publicly quoted companies, have large workforces, are technology leaders across fixed and mobile networks, and often serve millions or tens of millions of subscribers — including many government users and large businesses.
