Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity that fits a small business budget

Enterprise-grade tools, configured for the realities of a 10–250 employee company. We are not selling fear — we are selling layered defense, transparent reporting, and a phone number that picks up at 2:00 AM when something is wrong. Not sure where your gaps are? Take the free cybersecurity self-assessment quiz — 10 questions, 5 minutes, no email required.

The stack

Endpoint Detection and Response on every workstation and server. SIEM with 24/7 monitoring and human analyst escalation. MFA enforced on every business-critical system, not just email. Phishing simulations every month with click-rate reporting. Email security with DMARC enforcement. DNS filtering at the network layer. Quarterly vulnerability scans with remediation tickets. Annual third-party penetration test. Documented incident response plan with annual tabletop exercises.

EDR and 24/7 SOC monitoring — how it actually works

A traditional antivirus checks files against a list of known-bad signatures and stops there. EDR watches behavior: a process spawning PowerShell that reaches out to an unfamiliar IP, an account suddenly touching files it has never opened, a binary trying to disable the very tool watching it. When the agent sees that pattern, it can kill the process and quarantine the machine off the network in seconds — before the attacker pivots to a second host.

That telemetry feeds a Security Operations Center staffed around the clock. Most alerts are noise and close automatically; the ones that aren’t get a human analyst, and high-severity ones get escalated to your account. We don’t sit on a Tuesday-9am callback queue when an account is being actively compromised at 2:00 AM — that’s the whole reason 24/7 monitoring is worth paying for. You get a monthly report of what fired, what we contained, and what it means, in plain language rather than a raw alert dump.

MFA and conditional access

MFA on email is table stakes. We push it to everything that matters: your VPN, remote-access tools, line-of-business apps, and admin consoles. Then we layer conditional access on top — rules that decide, per sign-in, whether to allow, block, or step up the challenge based on who the user is, what device they’re on, and where they’re connecting from. A login from a managed laptop in New Jersey behaves differently than the same credentials hitting your tenant from a residential IP in another country at 3:00 AM. Legacy authentication protocols that can’t do MFA get switched off — they’re the back door attackers reach for first.

Backups that survive ransomware

Backups that an attacker cannot delete are the difference between a 4-hour recovery and a $300K extortion negotiation. Our backup architecture is image-based, off-site replicated, and immutable — meaning an attacker who fully owns your network still cannot encrypt or delete your backup chain.

Immutability matters because modern ransomware crews go after your backups first. They’ve learned that an encrypted server is only leverage if you can’t quietly restore around it, so they spend days finding and deleting the recovery copies before they pull the trigger. Immutable storage locks each backup for a set retention window — once written, it can’t be altered or deleted by anyone, including a domain admin whose credentials the attacker now holds. We pair that with off-site replication so a fire, a flood, or a fully compromised local environment doesn’t take the only good copy with it, and we test restores on a schedule rather than assuming a job that “completed” actually produces a bootable machine. How we design and verify this is covered on our backup and disaster recovery page, and the steps for an active event are in our ransomware recovery checklist.

Cyber-insurance controls — what underwriters actually check

Cyber-insurance applications stopped being a checkbox a few years ago. Carriers now want evidence, and a “yes” you can’t back up is grounds to deny a claim after an incident. The controls underwriters ask about line up almost exactly with the stack above: MFA on email and remote access, EDR on endpoints, immutable or off-site backups with tested restores, email filtering, a documented patch cadence, security awareness training, separated privileged admin accounts, and a written incident response plan.

We map your environment to the questionnaire before you fill it out, so you’re answering honestly and qualifying for better terms instead of guessing. When the renewal lands you have documentation — agent coverage reports, backup test logs, training completion — rather than a scramble. We cover the current-year specifics in our cyber-insurance requirements guide.

Compliance support

NY SHIELD Act, HIPAA Security Rule, PCI-DSS for retail and restaurants, and SOC 2 Type II preparation for clients pursuing it. We implement controls. Your auditor or legal counsel certifies compliance.

What this means for a NY/NJ SMB

The NY SHIELD Act applies to any business that holds private information on a New York resident — it doesn’t matter how small you are or whether you’re based in the state. It requires “reasonable” administrative, technical, and physical safeguards plus breach notification when private data is exposed. The same EDR, MFA, encryption, and training controls that make you defensible also make up the documented program SHIELD expects.

If you handle protected health information, the HIPAA Security Rule wants a documented risk assessment, access controls, audit logging, and encryption at rest and in transit — common ground for the medical and dental practices and law firms we support across the five boroughs and northern New Jersey. If you take card payments, PCI-DSS sets segmentation, logging, and scanning requirements that hit restaurants and retailers hardest. We build to whichever applies to you, and we don’t pretend a tool purchase equals compliance.

When something gets through

No control set is perfect, so the plan for the bad day matters as much as the prevention. When the SOC confirms a real incident, our runbook activates: isolate affected endpoints, preserve forensic evidence, notify your insurance carrier inside the reporting window, and begin restoring from immutable backup. We coordinate with your carrier’s breach counsel and any required regulators rather than leaving you to translate. The full handoff — who does what, in what order, and how containment moves to recovery — is laid out on our incident response page.

Our security stack is backed by our Microsoft CSP and AWS partnerships, plus hands-on Google Cloud experience. Response time commitments are published in our SLA.