Your perimeter disappeared.
Your security plan didn't change.
Before COVID, your data lived behind one firewall. Now it lives in three moving targets — users, devices, and data — each operating in and out of your network every day. Most businesses are still protecting the old castle.
Three castles. All moving.
No moat.
Before COVID, your IT environment was simple: a server room, a firewall, and everything safely inside the walls. You spent money on a big perimeter firewall and felt secure. That model made sense because everyone was in the building.
Post-COVID, that model is gone. Your users, devices, and data have each become their own independent environments — what we call three separate castles. They're all still connected to each other through tunnels, but they're constantly moving in and out of your perimeter. The attackers know different. They target each castle separately, on its own terrain, on its own schedule.
The Users Castle
Your employees log in from home, hotels, coffee shops, and client sites. Their identities are their own firewalls now — and most of them don't know it. A compromised credential is the #1 entry point for every breach we investigate.
The Devices Castle
Laptops, phones, tablets — each one is a potential entry point. Unpatched devices, personal machines used for work, and shadow IT create exposure that most businesses never see coming.
The Data Castle
OneDrive, SharePoint, your EHR, QuickBooks, email. Your data is distributed across cloud platforms that exist entirely outside your firewall. Every one of them is a target, and every misconfiguration is an open door.
We speak the language
your auditors speak.
Compliance isn't an upsell for us — it's the baseline. We start every managed relationship with a compliance conversation, regardless of your industry.
HIPAA
We document your security controls, manage annual risk assessments, and build the written policies that HIPAA requires. If an OCR audit comes calling, you'll have the paperwork to back you up — because we helped you build it.
FTC Safeguards
The FTC requires a written information security program, a qualified individual to oversee it, and documented vendor management. We build and maintain all of it — so your CFO doesn't have to become a compliance expert.
CIS Controls
When there's no specific regulatory overhead, we align your security posture to the CIS Controls — the same framework the federal government recommends for small and medium businesses. All of these frameworks cross-reference each other. Work on one, you're working on all three.
"Just reset the password"
is not an incident response.
South Dakota has breach notification laws. Depending on how many records are exposed and who is affected, you may be legally required to notify individuals, regulators, or both.
Alert
The moment our tools detect a compromise, a high-priority ticket fires. Every technician on the Cybertek team sees it simultaneously.
Lock
We lock the affected device, user account, and data access simultaneously. The breach stops spreading. The clock starts on our investigation.
Hunt
We go through the logs. We find out what happened, when, how, and why — before anyone gets the all-clear. We do not skip this step. Ever.
Report
Every incident produces a post-incident report. You review it, you sign it. The gravity of the situation gets communicated clearly. Because "it won't happen again" isn't a plan.
The problems most businesses
don't know they have.
Your production laptops, your fridge, your copier, and that cheap camera — all on the same network, all able to talk to each other. Attackers love a flat network.
Using a personal Gmail or ISP email for your business is a security and deliverability problem. It's also one of the first things we fix.
When we connect cloud security tools during onboarding, clients are routinely surprised to find accounts that have already been compromised and are sitting dormant — waiting.
A 15-person company with 70+ devices on the network is normal. VoIP phones, tablets, IoT devices, projectors, the fridge. Most business owners have no idea what's on their network.
"I wish every small business owner understood the cost of a breach. A business you've poured your life into can get snatched away by a civil liability lawsuit — and your $600-a-year bolt-on cyber insurance won't cover it."
Most small businesses are wildly underinsured. They're relying on a reactive instrument — insurance — instead of simply fixing the problem in the first place.
Things people ask before they sign.
You know you're exposed.
The question is how much.
A compliance conversation costs nothing. We'll tell you where you stand — honestly, in plain English, without a sales pitch attached.
Book a Free Compliance Conversation