Sound familiar?
You assumed you were too small to be worth attacking.
Automated attacks do not check headcount before trying the door.
The alert would go to an inbox nobody watches at 2am.
Software that notices at 2am and emails you is not protection, it is a notification.
Someone almost clicked the wrong thing.
An invoice that was not an invoice, or a wire request that looked exactly right. It was close.
Multi-factor has been "on the list" since last year.
It is free, it takes an afternoon, and it is still on the list.
A client or an insurer asked what you actually have in place.
And the honest answer took longer to put together than it should have.
None of the five fixes above is expensive. All five get skipped anyway.
Is antivirus on its own still enough?
Modern protection watches behavior rather than matching known files, because the file is new every time. The important part is not the software, it is that an alert at two in the morning reaches a human who does something about it.
What difference does a 24/7 security operations center make?
Software that detects something at 2am and emails you is not protection, it is a notification. We put a monitored service behind every machine so triage happens whether or not anyone here is awake, which is also what makes it affordable for a small business.
What three things cause most small business security incidents?
An account without multi-factor authentication, a machine missing months of updates, and a person clicking something convincing. Product solves the first two. The third needs a culture where staff can say they clicked it without being made to feel stupid.
What do we not do?
We do not sell fear, and we do not quote a compliance framework at a nine person company that does not need one. If you do handle defense contracts or regulated data, that is a different conversation and a different company of ours.
What do people ask before choosing cybersecurity and monitoring?
- We are small. Are we really a target?
- You are not a target, you are in range, and that is worse because nobody chose to spare you. Automated attacks do not check how big you are before trying the door.
- What happens when something is detected?
- It is triaged by a monitored security team around the clock, and the machine can be isolated from the network immediately if needed. You get told what happened and what was done, in plain language.
- Does this replace our cyber insurance?
- No, and increasingly insurers ask what controls you have before they will quote. Having multi-factor authentication, monitored protection and tested backups usually changes both whether you are covered and what it costs.
- Do you handle CMMC or defense compliance?
- Not under this brand. That work is deliberately kept separate and we will point you at it rather than pretend a small business plan covers it.
- How much does this add per machine?
- Less than most people expect, and it is included in the monthly plans rather than sold as an upsell after something goes wrong.
Where do we provide cybersecurity and monitoring?
We cover the towns listed below, with a page for each. Each page covers what we typically find in that town, because a warehouse off Route 28 and a five person firm on Maple Avenue do not have the same problem.
How do I get started?
Start with a fifteen minute phone call. You describe what is annoying you and we tell you whether we are the right fit.
Other services