Cybersecurity that starts with an assessment, not a subscription
Most security proposals lead with threats. We lead with what is actually true about your environment: a written risk assessment with severities and remediation prices, then monitoring and response built around what the assessment found.
The assessment comes first
Selling security work before anyone has looked at your environment is selling based on a guess. We review identity and access, email configuration, endpoint protection, patching status and backup integrity, then hand you a findings register with a severity and a fixed price attached to each item. You decide what gets fixed and in what order.
What ongoing security work covers
Endpoint protection and detection on every device, identity hardening and multi-factor enforcement, email authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), a patching cadence that does not wait for a reminder email, and a written incident response plan so a bad day has a checklist instead of a scramble.
Why we do not sell fear
Invented statistics about breach costs are the standard filler in this industry, and they are indefensible the moment a prospect asks for the source. We reason from how the technology and the attacks actually work, and we would rather under-claim than overstate a risk to close a deal.
What's included
Specific deliverables, not a vague promise to "handle IT."
- Identity and access review: MFA enforcement, conditional access, and an audit of who holds privileged accounts
- Email authentication setup or audit: SPF, DKIM and DMARC, checked for partial or conflicting configuration
- Endpoint protection and detection deployed across every device, not just servers
- A documented patching cadence, not an assumption that updates are happening
- Backup integrity checked as part of the security review, since a security review that skips backups is incomplete
- A written incident response plan naming who does what in the first hour of a suspected breach
- Security awareness material written for how your team actually works, not generic slides
- A quarterly review of what changed and what is newly exposed
A five-function approach, not a single tool
This is organized around the same five functions as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, a public standard, not a proprietary methodology we're asking you to trust on faith.
A scheduled review of your network, devices, staff practices and external exposure. Findings feed a working roadmap, not a one-time report that goes stale after a month.
Layered defenses across the network and every endpoint, plus staff training and phishing-resistant controls, so one mistake does not become one point of failure.
Monitoring and alerting that runs continuously and is tuned to real thresholds, with a defined escalation path so an alert reaches a person, not a dashboard nobody is watching.
A written incident response plan naming who does what in the first hour, with tools configured for scoped containment rather than shutting everything down.
A documented recovery plan, and a debrief after any real incident that turns what was learned into specific fixes, not just a summary for the file.
How this engagement works
Scoping call
Twenty minutes on what you run and what feels most exposed. You get a scope and a fixed price for the assessment.
Assessment
One to two weeks reviewing identity, email, endpoints, patching and backups.
Findings register
Delivered with a severity, a plain-language consequence and a fixed remediation price on every item.
Remediation, your call
Fix the high-severity items first, defer the rest, or take the document elsewhere. Ongoing monitoring is optional, not required.
Two honest starting points
Assessment only
A fixed-price review and a written findings register. You decide what happens next, including nothing. No ongoing commitment is assumed.
Assessment plus ongoing coverage
The same assessment, followed by fixed monthly management of the protect, detect and respond work above, reviewed against what has actually changed in your environment.
Questions about cybersecurity
Do we need to sign a contract to get the assessment?
No. The assessment is a standalone, fixed-price engagement. Nothing ongoing is assumed or required afterward.
What happens if you find something urgent?
High-severity findings get flagged to you immediately, not held back for the final written report.
Can you help if we think we're breached right now?
Yes, but call first before doing anything else, including rebooting anything. We'll tell you what to preserve and what to check.
Can this run alongside our existing IT provider?
Yes. A security review is commonly scoped as a second opinion or a specialist layer on top of existing IT support, not a replacement for it.
Terms worth knowing
Plain-language definitions, written for the person approving the budget rather than the person configuring the tool.
SIEM (Security Information & Event Monitoring)
Software that pulls logs from across your systems into one place, so a pattern that looks harmless on any single device stands out when it's viewed alongside everything else.
SOC function
The people and process that actually watch what monitoring tools surface and decide what's worth acting on. A tool by itself doesn't do this part.
External vulnerability management
Regularly scanning what your network exposes to the public internet and closing the gaps before someone else finds them first.
Security awareness training
Teaching staff to recognize the kind of email or phone call designed to trick them, tested with realistic simulations rather than a slide deck nobody remembers a week later.
Dark web monitoring
Watching for your company's credentials or data showing up in breach dumps and stolen-data marketplaces, so a leaked password gets changed before it's used against you.
Web filtering
Blocking access to known-malicious sites at the network level, before a click turns into a download.
MFA (multi-factor authentication)
Requiring a second proof of identity beyond a password, so a stolen password alone isn't enough to get in.
Email filtering
Screening inbound mail for phishing, malware and spoofed senders before it reaches an inbox.
Other services
Start with an assessment, not a contract
A short scoping call, then a fixed-price review of your security, cloud and support setup. You keep the findings either way.