Endpoint protection, identity hardening, and network segmentation built for small businesses that handle client data. Modern tooling, real defense in depth - not security theatre.
Real security isn't one tool - it's a stack of overlapping protections so when one layer fails (and they do), the next layer catches it.
SentinelOne EDR on every workstation and server. Detects ransomware behavior, not just signatures. Auto-isolates compromised machines.
MFA on M365, VPN, RDS, banking, and any business-critical login. Phishing-resistant where possible. Push notifications, not SMS.
Conditional access policies, geo-restrictions, legacy auth disabled, admin accounts separated and tightly scoped. M365 tenants properly configured.
VLANs separating voice, data, guest, and management traffic. Stops a compromised printer from being a pivot point into the rest of your network.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC properly configured. Anti-phishing rules, attachment scanning, link rewriting. The boring details that matter.
OS and third-party patches deployed on a schedule. Known vulnerabilities tracked and addressed - not left to drift for months.
Most small business breaches don't come from sophisticated attackers. They come from unpatched software, shared passwords, missing MFA, and flat networks. The boring stuff. We fix the boring stuff first, because that's where the real risk lives.
There's a tendency in the security industry to sell big, dramatic tooling - SOCs, threat hunting, AI-powered something. Most small businesses don't need that. They need MFA on every account, EDR on every endpoint, backups that actually restore, and a patched environment.
Get those right and you've eliminated the threats that actually hit small businesses. Skip them and the fanciest SOC in the world won't help you when an admin account with no MFA gets phished.
No. Traditional antivirus relies on signatures - it can only catch threats it already knows about. Modern attacks (ransomware, fileless malware, living-off-the-land techniques) bypass signature-based AV easily. EDR is what's needed: behavioral analysis that detects the patterns of an attack regardless of the specific malware. SentinelOne and similar tools represent the actual modern bar.
Cyber insurance applications now require specific controls - MFA on email, EDR on endpoints, segmented backups, written incident response plans. Not having these means denied claims or unaffordable premiums. We help clients meet these requirements as a normal part of the security stack, not as an emergency project right before renewal.
For most professional services firms, the relevant compliance is around protecting client PII and financial data, plus IRS Publication 4557 for tax preparers. We can build to those requirements. We don't currently focus on HIPAA or healthcare environments - that's a different specialty with its own audit requirements. For SOC 2, we can handle the technical controls; the policy/audit side typically involves a separate compliance partner.
Three layers. Technical - email security tooling that catches obvious phishing before users see it. Configuration - MFA so a stolen password isn't enough on its own. Awareness - periodic training so users recognize the attempts that get through. No layer is sufficient alone. All three together dramatically reduce successful attacks.
First step is containment - isolating affected systems, rotating credentials, getting EDR deployed if it wasn't already. Then forensics - what got accessed, what got exfiltrated, what the timeline looks like. Then remediation - cleaning up, hardening, and making sure the same path can't be used again. We're capable for incident response, but if it's a major active incident a dedicated DFIR firm is sometimes the right call - and we can coordinate with one.
Less than they think, if it's spent right. The basics (EDR, MFA, hardened M365, decent backups, patching) are well within reach for any business that takes IT seriously. The expensive parts are usually unnecessary tools sold by vendors with good marketing. Our default stack covers what genuinely matters at a price that's defensible for small business budgets.
Tell me about your environment. I'll do an honest assessment - no obligation, no sales theatre.