Security

Security is not a product you buy. It is a set of things being true.

Every business we speak to this year is asking about security, and most of them have already been sold something. The uncomfortable part is that the attacks actually hitting businesses your size are stopped by six unglamorous things, and almost nobody has all six.

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The six that matter

All six are included in the monthly price. None of them is an upsell.

Identity, because that is how they get in

Almost every small business breach we see starts with a password, not a firewall. Multi-factor on every account, admin rights only for people who need them, and conditional access where it fits.

Endpoints that defend themselves

Modern endpoint protection on every machine, with alerts that reach a human instead of a dashboard nobody opens. Patching on a schedule, because most successful attacks use a hole that was fixed months ago.

Email, the front door

Spam and phishing filtering, sender authentication on your own domain so nobody can send mail as you, and rules that catch the wire-transfer request that looks like it came from the owner.

Backup you have actually restored from

Endpoints, servers, and Microsoft 365, tested on a schedule with the result written down. Ransomware stops being a business-ending event and becomes a bad week.

Your people

Short, regular phishing training that staff do not resent, plus simulated phishing so you know where you actually stand rather than where you hope you do.

Leaving, done properly

Offboarding that removes access the day someone leaves. The quiet risk in most small businesses is not a hacker, it is three former employees who can still log in.

Included in every plan

You get certified, not just protected.

Every Papa Bear client is certified to CyberCert Gold each year, at no extra charge, and we do the work of getting you there. Twenty-seven controls, attested by you as the company director, with your name on the certificate.

Your insurer

A recognized certification is something an underwriter can price, rather than a questionnaire you filled in hopefully.

Your customers

Proof you take this seriously that does not depend on them believing your marketing.

You

A yearly checkpoint that says plainly which controls are in place and which are not.

CyberCert is an independent certification body. Gold is self-attested by the company director, which means no external audit fee and no assessor to schedule. Higher tiers exist and require an audit; we will tell you honestly if you need one.

What we will not tell you

That this makes you unbreakable. It does not. A determined attacker with time and money gets into most organizations, and anyone selling you certainty is selling you something.

What this does is put you well past the point where the automated, opportunistic attacks that hit small businesses succeed. That is the honest promise, and it is worth a great deal more than the dishonest one.

If you have compliance obligations

Defense contracts with CMMC or NIST 800-171 requirements, or an insurer or customer demanding a formal certification, are a different job with a different standard of evidence. That work is done by our parent company, Capital Cyber, and we will introduce you rather than quietly widen the scope of an IT contract.

Say so on the call and you get pointed at the right people the same day.

Find out where you actually stand

We will look at your identity setup, your endpoints, your email, and your backups, and tell you in plain English which of the six you have and which you do not. No charge, no obligation, no scare-tactic report.

(571) 260-6292

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