Cybersecurity services for small business, sized to real threats

Small and mid-sized companies get breached in unglamorous ways. A stolen password without MFA, a phishing email that tricks someone into approving a login, an exposed storage bucket, an unpatched VPN appliance. Our cybersecurity services for small business focus on those paths first. We usually work with companies of 20 to 500 people, often after a customer security questionnaire, a cyber insurance renewal or a near miss made the risk feel real.

The typical mistake is buying tools before fixing basics. Companies pay for an expensive security platform while admin accounts still use SMS codes and former contractors still have access to production. Others run a one-time penetration test, file the PDF and never fix the findings. On the development side, secrets end up committed to Git and dependencies go years without updates. Compliance gets treated as paperwork, so the policies say one thing and the systems do another, which auditors notice quickly.

We begin with an assessment of identity, devices, cloud configuration, email and your software delivery process, scored against frameworks like the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks. You get a ranked list of fixes, not a 200-page report. Then we do the work: phishing-resistant MFA with passkeys or FIDO2 keys for admins, Conditional Access, least-privilege roles, hardened AWS, Azure or Google Cloud accounts, and scanning built into your CI/CD pipeline. For HIPAA and SOC 2 we do readiness work, meaning we build the controls, write policies that match reality and collect evidence. The SOC 2 report itself comes from an independent CPA firm, and HIPAA has no official certification, so be wary of anyone selling one.

An initial assessment usually takes 2–4 weeks. Fixing the high-priority findings is typically another 1–3 months. Getting ready for a SOC 2 Type I audit commonly takes 3–6 months, and Type II then needs an observation period of several months on top.