Cybersecurity services
Cybersecurity services for small businesses in Arizona.
Seven layers that only work as a set, monitored around the clock by people who investigate rather than forward you an alert, and documented well enough to satisfy an insurer.
Based in Prescott, we provide cybersecurity services on-site across Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt, and remotely across Arizona. Every engagement starts by finding out what you actually have, because everything else is guesswork until someone looks.
The uncomfortable part, first.
Most businesses we assess already own security products. They have antivirus, a firewall, and backups that run. What they do not have is anyone confirming the pieces work together, or that the backup would restore, or that the firewall subscription did not lapse two years ago while the light stayed green.
Buying more products does not fix that. What fixes it is knowing what you actually have, then closing the gaps in the order that reduces the most risk. That is why we will not sell you a security package before someone has looked at your environment.
What is included
What cybersecurity services actually cover.
Seven layers, and why each one is there. Described by what it does rather than by the vendor behind it, because nobody buys a product logo.
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Identity
Stop stolen passwords working
Multi-factor authentication enforced on every account, not offered and skipped. Administrator rights removed from daily accounts. Sign-ins that do not look like your business get challenged automatically.
Stolen credentials are how most attacks on businesses this size begin.
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Endpoints
Control what runs on your machines
Behavior-based protection on every computer and server, plus application control so unapproved software cannot execute at all.
Antivirus recognises what is already known. Control decides what is allowed to run.
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Detection
Someone watching at 2am
A security operations center monitoring continuously, with analysts who investigate and contain. Not a dashboard that logs an alert until Monday.
The median attacker sits inside a network for months. Detection speed is most of the outcome.
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Email
Catch the message that looks legitimate
Filtering inside the mailbox rather than only at the perimeter, so a colleague account that has already been taken over cannot quietly phish everyone else.
Email is the entry point for most incidents and the mechanism for nearly all payment fraud.
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Recovery
Backups you have actually tested
Servers, endpoints, and cloud data including Microsoft 365, with restores tested on a schedule and recovery times written down.
An untested backup is a hypothesis, and ransomware targets backups first.
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People
Train the layer attackers aim at
Security awareness training with simulated phishing, tracked over time so you can see who is improving.
Most successful attacks begin with a person, and this is the only control that improves with practice.
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Evidence
Prove it to whoever asks
Written policies, an incident response plan naming who does what, and quarterly reporting. The documentation an insurer, auditor, or client security questionnaire will ask for.
Security you cannot evidence does not count when someone with authority asks.
Cost
What cybersecurity services cost.
Security is not a separate line item here. It sits inside the managed agreement alongside the help desk and everything else, which you can budget at 250 to 400 dollars per device, per month.
That range is a budgeting guide rather than a rate card. We build each agreement around what the business actually needs, which means the backup systems your data calls for, the applications we take on supporting, whether network equipment is included, the number of servers, and any regulatory obligation you carry. Devices are just the closest proxy for the work, which makes them the most reliable thing to plan against before anyone has looked.
That is a deliberate choice. When security is sold separately, it becomes the thing a provider removes to win on price, and the buyer finds out which layers were dropped during an incident. Bundling it means there is no cheaper version of us with the protection taken out.
Before any of that, the assessment is 1,500 dollars flat for 10 users or fewer, or 150 dollars per user above that. The written report is yours to keep whether or not you ever hire us. Full numbers, including three real client agreements, are on our pricing page.
Regulated work
When somebody else sets your requirements.
Plenty of businesses arrive here because a third party started asking questions. An insurer sent a questionnaire. A client sent a security review. An examiner set a date. A board member read something.
We build and evidence the technical controls those obligations expect, and we produce documentation you can hand over. What we do not do is certify anyone against a framework, because nobody legitimately can, and any provider offering to make you "HIPAA certified" is selling something that does not exist.
Law firms
Client confidentiality obligations, and the security questionnaires clients now send you.
Financial services
FTC Safeguards, examiner readiness, and members who cannot afford a bad week.
Nonprofits
Donor data, grant obligations, and a board that needs a straight answer.
Construction
Field crews, changing headcount, and wire fraud on draw payments.
Common questions
Cybersecurity services, answered.
- What do cybersecurity services include?
- For a business of 10 to 250 people, the working set is enforced multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection and application control, 24/7 monitoring and response, email security, tested backups, staff training, and written policies you can show an insurer. Those layers only work as a set. Endpoint protection without identity control, or backups without monitoring, produces a feeling of coverage that is worse than knowing you are exposed.
- How much do cybersecurity services cost for a small business?
- Security is not sold separately here. It is part of the managed agreement, which you can budget at 250 to 400 dollars per device per month. That is a planning figure rather than a rate: the real number is built around the backup systems your data needs, the applications we support, whether network equipment is included, and what any regulator expects. Bundling security matters because splitting it out lets a provider sell you IT support with the protection removed and call it cheaper. The one-time assessment that comes first is 1,500 dollars flat for 10 users or fewer, or 150 dollars per user above that.
- Is cybersecurity really necessary for a small business?
- Some of it, not all of it, and that is an honest answer rather than a sales one. Your size does not determine whether you are targeted, because criminals scan for weaknesses rather than for revenue. What size changes is how much you can absorb when something goes wrong. A ten-person firm that loses access to its files for three weeks is usually in more trouble than a five-hundred-person one. We can support businesses smaller than ten people and we do, but a fair amount of the cost is fixed whatever the headcount, so the budget often stops making sense before the security does. We will tell you honestly which side of that line you are on.
- Do you offer 24/7 cybersecurity monitoring?
- Yes. Security monitoring and response runs 24/7/365 through a security operations center. Note the distinction, because plenty of providers blur it: our help desk runs 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday. The monitoring is the part that never sleeps.
- Can you help with HIPAA, FTC Safeguards, or a client security questionnaire?
- We build and evidence the technical controls those frameworks expect, and we produce the documentation you hand to an auditor, an insurer, or a client. We are not attorneys and we do not certify anyone against a framework, because nobody legitimately can. If your obligation needs a specialist we do not have, we will say so rather than take the work.
- What if we have already been breached?
- Start at our page on what to do in the first hour, which is written for exactly that moment and does not require hiring us. If it is happening right now, call rather than fill in a form.
Being attacked right now? Start here, then call us. That page is written for the first hour and does not require hiring anyone.
The next step
Find out which layers you are actually missing.
The three-minute self-assessment covers the same nine areas as our paid engagement. You get a score and a breakdown on screen, with no email address required and no follow-up unless you ask.
No pitch on the first call. If we are not a fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.