Cybersecurity and business continuity
Security is a property of how the network was designed, not a product you add later. We build the separation in, harden the edge, and make sure recovery is something you have actually tested.
We are not selling you fear
Plenty of providers lead with threat statistics and a compliance logo wall. That approach sells product and rarely changes the outcome, because the incidents we get called into are almost never exotic.
They are a flat network where a compromised guest device could reach a server. A firewall with an any-any rule somebody added for a vendor in 2019. A backup that has been failing silently for four months. An account with a password that never expired and no second factor.
Fixing those is unglamorous and it is where the actual risk reduction lives.
What we find most often
- Flat networks with no segmentation between guest, staff and building systems
- Cameras and access control on the same segment as workstations
- Firewall rules nobody can explain and nobody will remove
- Remote access exposed directly to the internet
- Backups running but never restore-tested
- Local administrator accounts shared across an entire site
- Multi-factor authentication enabled for some users but not all
- End-of-support operating systems still in production
Where we work
Network segmentation
Separate segments for staff, guest, voice, cameras, access control, building automation and management, with inter-segment policy written to intent rather than accumulated by accident.
Edge hardening
Firewall policy review with removal of stale rules, no direct remote-desktop exposure, VPN with modern authentication, management interfaces off the public internet, and default credentials eliminated.
Identity and access
Multi-factor authentication across the board, conditional access policy, privileged account separation, joiner and leaver process, and periodic access review so departed staff do not linger in a directory.
Endpoint protection
Managed endpoint security with alerting that reaches a human, operating system and third-party patching on a cadence, disk encryption, and removal of local administrator rights where the workflow allows.
Backup and recovery
Backup design against a stated recovery point and recovery time objective, offsite and immutable copies where warranted, and scheduled restore testing with the results in your review pack.
Incident response
A written runbook naming who is called, what is isolated first, how evidence is preserved, who notifies whom, and what “recovered” means. Written before it is needed, not during.
Recovery objectives, stated in hours
Two numbers determine what a continuity plan has to look like, and most organizations have never been asked for either.
Recovery point objective is how much data you can afford to lose, measured in time. If your RPO is four hours, a nightly backup does not meet it.
Recovery time objective is how long you can be down. If your RTO is four hours and your only copy is offsite on rotating media, you will not make it.
We ask for those numbers first, then design backward from them. Where the answer is uncomfortable, that is useful information: it tells you what the current arrangement is actually buying.
Florida-specific reality
Named storm season is a continuity requirement here, not a hypothetical. Extended power loss, damaged plant and staff who cannot reach the building are all foreseeable. A plan that assumes people can get to the site is not a plan.
Continuity checklist
- RPO and RTO agreed per system, not company-wide
- At least one copy offsite and outside the failure domain
- An immutable or otherwise ransomware-resistant copy
- Restores tested on a schedule, not on demand
- Configuration backups for network and security devices
- Documented rebuild order for dependent systems
- Contact tree that works when email is down
- Alternate connectivity path identified in advance
- Generator and UPS runtime known and tested
We are network and infrastructure engineers. Where an engagement touches a regulated framework such as HIPAA or PCI DSS, we work alongside your compliance advisor rather than issuing an opinion on your compliance status.
Want to know where you actually stand?
The assessment covers segmentation, edge exposure, identity posture and backup recoverability. You get the findings in writing regardless of what happens next.