A small accounting firm pays a ransomware gang $40,000. A retail store gets phished and wires money to a fake supplier. We design layered protection — firewall, MFA, antivirus, training — so your business is the hard target attackers skip in favor of someone else.
No single product blocks every attack. Real security stacks defenses so when one fails, the next catches the threat.
Industry standard for small-to-mid business. We size the model to your bandwidth and user count, deploy Capture ATP advanced threat protection, and tune rules so it's actually used, not just installed.
FortiGate 40F through 100F for SMB. Strong throughput, excellent VPN performance, and the Fortinet Security Fabric lets us add wireless and switches that report into one dashboard.
Sophos XGS firewalls plus Sophos Endpoint = a tightly-integrated stack where endpoint and firewall talk to each other. If a laptop gets infected, the firewall isolates it automatically.
For multi-location businesses. Cloud-managed firewalls, switches, APs, and cameras all from one browser tab — and one of us managing it for you with eyes on every alert.
The antivirus that ships with Windows is far better than its reputation — when configured properly. We turn on the right policies, tune detection, and integrate with Microsoft 365 Defender for the bigger picture.
When third-party antivirus is the right choice — multi-tenant deployments, Mac fleets, or specific compliance needs — we deploy and centrally manage Bitdefender GravityZone or Malwarebytes EDR.
Remote workers connecting securely. We deploy SSL VPN on your firewall, or modern zero-trust mesh (Tailscale, Cloudflare Access) so people get only the resources they need — not the whole network.
Air-gapped backups, application allow-listing, immutable cloud snapshots, EDR with rollback. The goal: even if ransomware lands, it can't spread, it can't encrypt the backup, and we restore in hours, not days.
The number-one attack vector is still a malicious email. We deploy Microsoft Defender for Office 365 or Proofpoint Essentials — banner-tagging external mail, scanning attachments in a sandbox, and quarantining the worst before it reaches inboxes.
Firewall IPS, NDR on the network, EDR on the endpoints — three layers of "tell me when something weird happens." Plus quarterly review of the alerts to tune out false-positives.
WPA3, separate IoT VLAN, hidden admin SSID, RADIUS for business networks — a Wi-Fi network designed so a compromised guest device can't see your servers.
1Password, Bitwarden, or Dashlane Business deployed properly — unique strong passwords for every site, plus secure sharing inside teams so credentials don't live in spreadsheets.
The single biggest reduction in account takeovers — turning on MFA across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, banking, your CRM, and your remote-access. We roll it out gradually so nobody gets locked out.
EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) — beyond traditional antivirus. We deploy SentinelOne, CrowdStrike Falcon Go, or Defender for Business, with central alerting so anomalies surface to a human.
The phishing test, the "spot the fake invoice" workshop, the explainer on why password reuse is the actual disaster. 30-minute monthly sessions for your team. We provide content, you provide the conference room.
We map your current network, accounts, devices, backups, and existing tools. Most businesses already have 70% of what they need — it just isn't turned on.
MFA on every account, backup that's actually off-site, the firewall already in the closet finally configured. Most attacks fall to these alone.
Firewall, EDR, phishing filter, password manager, training — each layer covers what the previous misses. Rollout is gradual so nobody gets locked out.
Monthly review of alerts, false-positive tuning, firmware updates, certificate expiries. Security is a habit, not a one-time install.
Once a year we walk through "what if today is the ransomware day" with you. Who calls whom, what gets unplugged, where the offline backup lives. Practice beats panic.
Consumer router "firewalls" do basic NAT — blocking unsolicited inbound traffic. That helps, but it doesn't inspect what's leaving your network (which is how data exfil happens), doesn't sandbox suspicious files, doesn't catch encrypted phishing, and doesn't tell you when something went wrong. A real business firewall does. For a home, your ISP router is often fine. For a business with sensitive data, it isn't.
You need security sized for 6 people — not enterprise-grade pricing. A SonicWall TZ-270, MFA across Microsoft 365, Defender for Business, and a backup setup will run you under $200/month all-in. The math is brutal: that's roughly what one day of ransomware downtime costs a similar business.
Multi-Factor Authentication — your password and a code from your phone (or a tap to approve a sign-in). Microsoft's own data shows MFA blocks 99.9% of account takeover attempts. If you turn on nothing else this year, turn this on for email, banking, and your business platforms. We'll roll it out across your team in a way that doesn't lock anyone out.
We do basic external-network vulnerability scans and review them with you. For formal annual penetration tests required by some compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA), we partner with a specialist firm and handle the remediation. We're transparent about what's in-house and what's referred out.
Step one: disconnect that computer from the network. Step two: have them change their password from a different device. Step three: call us. We check the mailbox for forwarding rules, suspicious sign-ins, sent items, and recently-shared files. The faster we get to it, the less damage.
We follow SOC 2 type controls in our own operation — logging, MFA, role-based access, signed BAAs for HIPAA clients. We're not currently a SOC 2 certified vendor (most SMB IT providers aren't), but we can sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement and provide evidence of our controls if you need it for an audit.
Right-sized solutions, not enterprise overkill. We don't sell you what you can't run.
If a "best practice" wrecks productivity, we propose the working compromise instead of dogma.
Every alert routes to you and us. Nothing is hidden behind our dashboard alone.
We rehearse the incident response with you once a year — so when it's real, nobody panics.
Free 30-minute call. We'll walk your current setup and tell you the top three improvements with the biggest impact.
We were ransomware'd late on a Friday. They had a tech on-site within an hour, isolated the network, and walked us through a clean restore. They're now our managed firewall provider.
MFA rollout for 22 staff in two weeks, zero lockouts. They wrote our procedure document and trained the front-desk team. Auditor was impressed.
An employee fell for a phishing email. They had the account locked, sessions revoked, and forwarded mail rules cleared inside 20 minutes of our call. No data lost.
30 minutes on the phone. Clear picture of what's solid and what's exposed.