Security
We are not going to sell you a product and call it a strategy. The controls below are the ones that, in our experience, actually stop incidents at businesses your size — and they only work if people can live with them.
Our approach
Security budgets are finite. These are in the order we would spend yours.
Almost every incident we see starts with a working set of credentials in the wrong hands. Fix identity and most of the rest gets much harder for an attacker.
Most users do not need to be local administrators, and the ones who insist they do usually need one specific thing solved instead. Removing standing admin rights stops a whole class of attacks outright — and quietly cuts support tickets.
Modern endpoint protection with someone actually reading the alerts. Detection nobody responds to is just an expensive log file.
Business email compromise costs more than ransomware for most organizations our clients’ size. The controls are partly technical and partly process — the process half is the one that gets skipped.
The last line, and the one most often untested. A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. We test ours.
Being straight with you
A short list, because a security conversation that contains none of these is not an honest one.
Nobody can promise that. What we can do is make you a much harder target than the alternatives, and make sure you can recover if something does get through.
There is no single tool that covers identity, endpoints, email, backup and human behavior. Anyone selling you one is selling you a product, not a solution.
Passing an audit and being secure overlap, but they are not the same thing. We will help with both, and we will be clear about which one a given control is for.
Most organizations are not. We will look at what you have, tell you what we would fix first, and be honest about what can wait.
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