Cybersecurity
Practical security for businesses without a security team.
Email security, endpoint protection, firewalls, backups, and awareness training — sourced through qualified provider channels, sequenced by where you're actually exposed, and managed through one desk.
Where the Exposure Is
Four everyday exposure points to review.
Start with the paths your team uses every day. Review these four areas against your current setup, then decide which gaps need a qualified provider.
Most incidents start in the inbox — a convincing invoice, a fake login page, a supplier whose account was compromised. Email filtering and authentication close the most-used door first.
Credentials
Reused passwords and accounts without multi-factor authentication let an attacker simply log in. MFA and sensible access controls cost little relative to what they prevent.
Endpoints
Laptops and desktops are where work — and malware — runs. Modern endpoint detection watches for behaviour, not just known virus signatures, and someone has to respond to what it finds.
Backups
A backup you've never tested restoring is a hope, not a plan. Ransomware recovery comes down to whether a clean, recent copy of your data exists somewhere the attacker couldn't reach.
What We Arrange
The controls that close real gaps.
Email security
Filtering that catches phishing and impersonation before it reaches the inbox, plus the sender-authentication records that make your own domain harder to spoof. Because email is where most incidents begin, this is usually the first control worth getting right — and one of the least disruptive to deploy.
Endpoint detection & managed response (EDR/MDR)
EDR watches laptops, desktops, and servers for malicious behaviour; MDR adds a provider whose analysts respond to alerts around the clock — because a detection at 2am only helps if someone acts on it. For businesses without an in-house security team, the managed option is usually the honest recommendation, and we source both through qualified provider channels.
Firewalls & network security
A current, properly configured firewall at each site, with the remote-access setup your team actually uses — VPN or zero-trust access in place of ports left open to the internet. Where we arrange your connectivity, network security gets designed alongside it rather than bolted on later.
Backup & disaster recovery
Backups that are automatic, kept separate from your live systems, and tested — with a recovery plan that states how much data you can afford to lose and how long you can afford to be down. That conversation is also where failover internet and backup phone routing enter the picture, and we can arrange those through the same desk.
Security awareness training
Your team is part of the attack surface. Recurring training and simulated phishing can help people practice recognizing suspicious messages and reporting them. We source awareness programs that run on a schedule rather than relying on a one-time presentation.
Cyber-Insurance Readiness
What your insurer will ask about.
Cyber-insurance applications and renewals increasingly come with a questionnaire: do you use multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, separated backups, awareness training? Answering “no” can affect whether a policy is offered and on what terms.
If you have one of those questionnaires in hand, it makes a good starting checklist — we arrange solutions that address the controls your insurer or broker lists. The insurer decides what qualifies, so we work from their wording rather than guaranteeing an outcome.
Security often gets reviewed alongside cloud and managed IT — and if you're still scoping what you need, our cybersecurity buyer's guide walks through the decisions in plain language.
We source and coordinate security solutions through qualified provider channels. We are not your auditor or MSSP — and we'll tell you when you need one.
FAQ
Straight answers on small-business security.
Review your security setup.
Tell us what you run and what worries you — a SwitchU advisor will come back within one business day.