Multi-factor authentication, phishing protection, email authentication, and device management, configured so your people can still do their jobs.
Security for a small business is mostly a handful of controls done properly. Not a product you buy once.
Applied to email, remote access, and anything holding money or client data. Configured to be conditional where it can be, so people are not fighting prompts all day for no benefit.
Filtering that catches the obvious, banners that flag external mail, and blocking on the links and attachments that actually get used. Plus plain English guidance so your team knows what a real attempt looks like.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set up correctly, then monitored. Without these, anyone can send mail that appears to come from your domain, and your own mail is more likely to land in spam. You can check your domain free with MailArrive.
Company and personal devices enrolled, encrypted, kept patched, and remotely wipeable. A lost laptop becomes an inconvenience rather than an incident.
People get the access their role needs and lose it the day they leave. Dormant accounts belonging to former staff are one of the most common ways in, and one of the easiest to prevent.
Ransomware is a backup problem as much as a security one. Tested, isolated backups are what turn a breach into a bad week instead of a closure. See backup and disaster recovery.
Accounting firms, bookkeepers, financial advisers, and anyone touching consumer financial information sit under the FTC Safeguards Rule. Most of the businesses we meet in that position are not sure whether they comply, and the requirement is not as exotic as it sounds.
A written information security program, someone named as responsible for it, a risk assessment, access controls, encryption, multi-factor authentication, staff training, and a plan for responding to an incident. Most of that is ordinary good practice written down.
Not the technology. It is the documentation and the evidence. Controls exist but nobody wrote down what they are, who owns them, or when they were last checked, so there is nothing to show an auditor or an insurer.
Cyber insurance applications now ask direct technical questions, and answering one wrongly can void a claim. We go through the questionnaire with you and make the answers true before you sign it.
We are not attorneys and we do not certify compliance. We build and document the technical controls, and we are straight with you about where our part stops.
No, and small businesses are targeted precisely because the assumption is common. Most attacks are automated and indiscriminate: credential stuffing, phishing sent to thousands of addresses, scanning for exposed services. Nobody picked you.
Done badly, yes. Done properly it is a prompt on a new device or an unusual location, not every login. Conditional access policies are the difference, and setting them up is part of the work.
It helps, and it stops very little of what actually causes losses now. Business email compromise and stolen credentials do not involve malware at all. Nothing on the machine is infected, someone simply logged in as your finance manager and asked for a payment.
We help you contain it, work out what was reached, and get you back to work. Having documented systems and tested backups beforehand is the difference between hours and weeks, which is most of why we insist on both.
Yes. Larger customers increasingly send suppliers a security questionnaire before signing. We complete the technical sections with you and flag anything that needs to be true before you can honestly tick it.
Usually not. Microsoft 365 business plans already include most of what is needed and it is commonly switched off or misconfigured. Turning on what you already pay for is the cheapest security work available.
The assessment is free and there is no obligation. You will get a plain English read on your exposure and what is worth fixing first.
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