Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Assessments and Security Projects
Small and mid-sized businesses often protect enterprise-grade data (customer records, financial systems, vendor logins) with consumer-grade security. We close that gap with fixed-scope projects: find the real risks, fix them in order, and hand you the documentation.
What we deliver
Projects That Close the Gaps Attackers Use
Many breaches do not start with a sophisticated attacker. They start with a stolen password, an unpatched laptop or a convincing email read in a hurry. Each project below targets one of those paths and ends with the control in place and documented.
Security Assessments
A review of your external exposure, endpoints, identity controls, backups, network structure and the AI tools staff already use. Findings are ranked by real risk, with a fix order and effort estimate for each.
Segmentation Design
A design that walls off guest wireless, staff devices, servers, payment systems and production equipment from each other, then the firewall and switch changes to put it in place.
MFA and Identity Rollout
MFA and conditional access across email, VPN and critical applications, rolled out in stages so staff are not locked out on day one. A stolen password alone should never be enough.
EDR and Email Security Rollout
Endpoint detection and email filtering selected, deployed and tuned, plus SPF, DKIM and DMARC set to enforcement, so receiving mail servers can reject mail that fakes your domain. Alerting is routed to whoever you choose, with a written runbook.
Incident Readiness
A written incident response plan, a contact sheet for your insurer, counsel and response firm, and a tabletop exercise that walks your team through a realistic scenario before it happens for real.
Insurance and Audit Evidence
We help you assemble the evidence an insurer or auditor asks for, control by control, instead of scrambling when the questionnaire arrives. We do not issue certifications.
How a Security Project Runs
Security work only helps if it gets prioritized and finished, not left as a slide deck nobody opens again.
Assess
We review your environment and document exactly what we find.
Prioritize
Findings ranked by real risk, not by what is easiest to sell, with a clear order for fixing them.
Fix as projects
Each fix is scoped and priced in writing, then built, tested and documented.
Hand over
Configurations, runbooks and credentials handed to you, with a walkthrough for whoever runs the systems day to day.
Security Built Into the Network, Not Bolted On
Controls only hold up if the person configuring them understands the whole network, not one product’s dashboard.
Physical and logical, one accountable party
We configure the same switches and firewalls we secure, so segmentation is part of the network itself.
Documentation you keep
Every control, configuration and credential is documented and handed to you.
The designer explains it
A plain-language explanation of what each control does and why it is there, not a pitch for the next add-on.
On site when it needs hands
Remote anywhere in the US for most of the work, on site in Chicagoland when a firewall, switch or access point needs physical attention.
Find Out Where Your Real Exposure Is
Start with a 30-minute call. We will talk through what you have in place and tell you honestly where the real gaps are.
FAQ
Cybersecurity Questions, Answered
No. Many attacks are automated and do not check company size. A small business with weak controls and valuable data is an easier target than a large one with strong controls.
Traditional antivirus catches known threats by signature. EDR watches for attack behavior, which can catch threats that do not match a known signature, including many ransomware variants.
A review of your external exposure, endpoint and patch status, identity controls, backup integrity and network segmentation, delivered as a plain-language report with ranked findings. Scoped and quoted in writing before it starts.
Your internal team or a monitoring provider you choose. We configure the alerting, write the runbook for each alert type and walk the responders through it, so the handoff is clean.
If you have cyber insurance, call your carrier first. Your policy may require you to use an approved response firm, and acting before you notify the carrier can affect the claim. Our part comes before and after: incident readiness work so you are prepared, and hardening projects once the incident is contained.
A working session where your team talks through a realistic incident step by step: who notices, who decides, who calls the insurer, where the backups are. It finds the gaps in your plan while they are cheap to fix.
Yes. We put the controls insurers ask about in place (MFA, EDR, tested backups, segmentation) and help you assemble the evidence. We do not issue certifications or claim to pass audits on your behalf.
No. Even a small office benefits from keeping guest wireless, staff devices and any payment or production systems on separate segments, so one compromised laptop cannot reach everything else.
