The controls that prevent most of what actually happens to businesses like yours, implemented properly and kept current. Not a product sold once and forgotten.
Almost every incident we get called into could have been prevented by a short list of unglamorous controls. Not by a product with a clever name. By multi-factor authentication that was actually turned on everywhere, a backup somebody had tested, patches that were current, and an email filter doing its job.
Attacks on businesses your size are automated and indiscriminate. Nobody chose you. That is why being small offers no protection, and also why the effective fixes are affordable.
Email, remote access, admin accounts, financial systems. The single highest-value control there is, and the one most often half-finished. Half-finished means the one account without it is the way in.
Verified, tested restores with retention that matches your obligations. This is what turns a ransomware incident from a business-ending event into a bad week.
Modern endpoint protection on every machine and filtering that stops the message before somebody has to make a judgement call about it. Most compromises still start in an inbox.
Unpatched systems and default configurations are how automated attacks get in. Kept current as part of managed IT rather than done once during a project.
When somebody leaves, their accounts should close that day: email, cloud storage, remote access, the door code. This is the most common real gap we find, and it is entirely a process problem.
Most businesses have more sensitive data in more places than they realise, usually in old email, former employee accounts and local copies. We find it before somebody else does.
Any provider who tells you otherwise is selling something. What we can do is close the gaps that automated attacks rely on, make the damage recoverable when something does get through, and make sure you find out quickly rather than in six months.
We handle the technical side: access control, encryption, logging, authentication, backup and device security, and we document what has been done. Policy and legal interpretation is not our lane, and we will say so rather than guess. For regulated practices we work alongside whoever advises you on that.
If you sell to larger companies you will be sent a vendor security questionnaire. The answers are straightforward when the controls already exist and are documented, and painful when you are assembling them with a deal waiting.
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We will review what you have, tell you honestly which gaps carry real risk for a business your size, and what it costs to close them. No charge, and no scare tactics.