Security that is in the plan, not in the proposal.
Endpoint, identity, email and round-the-clock detection, included in the monthly rate rather than sold as the upgrade you buy after something happens.
What is running from day one
Most breaches at companies your size do not involve anything exotic. They involve a password that worked, an inbox that was trusted, and a machine nobody had patched. The controls below are aimed squarely at that.
Managed endpoint detection and response
Behavioural detection rather than signature matching alone, with an analyst on the other end. Isolation of a compromised machine happens in minutes, not after someone reads an email about it.
Identity protection
Multi-factor authentication everywhere it can be enforced, conditional access rules that fit how your people actually work, and monitoring for the sign-in that should not have been geographically possible.
Email security
Filtering for the obvious, and detection for the impersonation attempt that carries no attachment and no link, because that is the one that gets paid.
Round-the-clock detection and response
A security operations centre watching what got through everything else. The difference that matters is whether someone acts at three in the morning or simply logs it for the morning.
Patch and vulnerability management
Most successful intrusions use something that had a fix available. Patching on a schedule, with exceptions written down, closes more risk than any product you can buy.
Backup as a security control
The modern breach encrypts rather than steals. Immutable, tested backups are what turns a catastrophe into an expensive week.
Awareness training
A few minutes often, rather than the annual hour everybody clicks through while doing something else. Simulated phishing that teaches instead of humiliating.
Evidence and reporting
SOC 2, HIPAA and cyber-insurance questionnaires answered with logs and configuration exports rather than assurances.
What this is not
It is not a penetration test. A test tells you what a motivated attacker could do on the day it was run; it is worth doing, we will help you arrange one, and it is a separate piece of work with its own price. Anyone bundling it into a monthly rate is either not doing it properly or not doing it often.
It is not a compliance certification. We run the controls a SOC 2 or HIPAA programme depends on and we keep the evidence in a state an auditor can read, but the audit itself is performed by someone independent, and it should be.
It is not a guarantee, and we would be careful with anyone who offers one. What we will tell you plainly is which risks these controls address, which they reduce without removing, and which are still open because you have decided the fix costs more than the exposure. That last list should exist and should be short.
Whether this is the right service for you
This is usually the right shape when
- A cyber-insurance renewal asking questions you cannot currently answer
- Client contracts starting to carry security requirements
- Regulatory obligations such as 23 NYCRR 500 or a written IRS security plan
- A near miss, or a competitor who has just had a bad month
We would point you elsewhere if
- Looking for a certificate rather than the controls behind one
- Wanting security as a project that finishes, rather than something that runs
- Environments with industrial control systems, which need a different specialist
Questions about cybersecurity
Our insurer sent a fifteen-page questionnaire. Can you help?
Do you need to replace our antivirus?
What happens if something does get through?
Is training really necessary if the filtering is good?
Start with a free IT assessment
Thirty minutes on a call, then a written picture of what you are running, where you are exposed, and what supporting it properly should cost per month. No obligation, and the document is yours to keep either way.