Insurers, clients, lenders, and regulators are increasingly asking small businesses to show their work. These are the services that give you something real to hand over when they do.
If you have good security practices in place then it's critical you can demonstrate them when someone asks. And more people are asking than ever. Cyber insurance carriers wants to see specific controls in place before they'll pay a claim. Bigger client want proof before they'll sign a contract. A buyer wants documentation if you ever sell the business. Even a court wants to see reasonable precautions were taken if something ever goes wrong and the question of liability comes up.
The services on this page are all about building that proof.
Compliance Reviews
Meeting someone else's bar.
A compliance review is really just a way of proving you meet someone else's standard. Whether that's an insurance carrier, a bigger client doing a vendor review, or a regulation tied to your industry. We look at what's actually being asked of you, assess where your business currently stands, and document the gap between the two. This covers everything from cyber insurance preparation to PCI-DSS for businesses that take credit cards to vendor risk reviews for the software tools you rely on every day.
If you're not sure what's actually required of you or what an insurer, client, or regulator might ask to see, this is usually the right place to start.
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Security Policy Documentation
Putting the unwritten rules in writing.
Most small businesses operate on things everyone sort of knows like not reusing passwords, being careful with customer data, and don't do anything weird on the company WiFi. None of it is written down, which means none of it is consistent, and there's nothing to show when you need to prove what your policies actually are.
We write a complete set of security policies tailored to how your business actually runs. These are typically covering acceptable use, password management, data handling, remote work, bring your own device (BYOD), and incident response. Most cyber insurance carriers ask about this directly during the application process, and it's one of the most common gaps we find during assessments.
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Cyber Incident Response Plan (CIRP)
Knowing exactly what to do before you need to know.
No security setup is perfect, and at some point something will go wrong. A phishing email gets through, a device gets lost, an account gets compromised. The businesses that recover quickly aren't the ones who avoided every possible incident. They're the ones who had a plan and didn't have to figure things out under pressure.
We build a written Cyber Incident Response Plan (CIRP) specific to your business. It includes who gets called, what gets shut down, how customers get notified, and what your legal obligations are. Most insurance carriers require one.
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Security Posture Letter
A real answer when someone asks about your security.
More businesses are being asked by their own clients to prove their security is real before a contract gets signed. This is sometimes a formal questionnaire, sometimes this is a pointed question from someone's legal team. Saying "we take it seriously" usually isn't enough anymore.
After reviewing your environment, we issue a formal Security Posture Letter on your behalf. This is a written document summarizing the controls you actually have in place, in language a non-technical reader can understand. Something you can attach to a contract, include in an RFP, or keep on file for whenever the question comes up.
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Not Sure Which One Applies to You?
If you're not sure where the gaps are or what's actually being asked of you, that's a completely normal place to start. Most of the time the right next step becomes clear after a short conversation or after an Operational Security Assessment, if you haven't had one yet.
