Protect the systems attackers test first.
Attackers don't start with your hardest target. They start with email, passwords, and forgotten access: the everyday systems nobody's watching. That's where we start too.
30 minutes. We'll tell you what we'd check first — before you've paid for anything.
Why "we have a tool for that" keeps failing
Every business we meet already owns security products. A firewall from one vendor, antivirus from another, a portal with "secure" in the name, maybe a password manager half the team adopted.
Tools aren't the problem. Ownership is. Each product covers its slice, nobody verifies the configuration, and the spaces between the tools — the old vendor login, the inbox without MFA, the backup nobody's restored — belong to no one.
Managed cybersecurity means those spaces get an owner. One party accountable for finding exposure, closing it, and watching what changes.
What's included
Exposure assessment
A structured review of users, devices, access paths, vendors, and current controls. Findings ranked by business consequence, in language you can repeat to a partner or a board.
Email and identity protection
MFA enforced where it counts, admin access trimmed, dormant accounts closed, phishing defenses configured. Email is the front door; it gets locked first.
Endpoint security
The laptops, desktops, and phones your team works on — protected, updated, and visible, whether they sit in the office or travel between job sites and kitchen tables.
Vendor and third-party access review
Every external party that can reach your systems, inventoried and matched to a current business need. Access that can't justify itself gets closed.
Backup and recovery planning
Backups protected from the same attack they're meant to survive, tested with actual restores, and sequenced around what the business needs back first.
Monitoring and response planning
Detection on the systems that matter, and a written plan naming who acts, who's called, and in what order. That plan is a five-minute conversation you want to have before the phone rings at 2 a.m.
Compliance-aligned documentation
The policies and records behind WISP, CMMC, and insurance questionnaires — written to match the controls that actually exist.
Same service, different stakes
For financial firms
The work protects client data and answers the FTC Safeguards, IRS, and insurance questions pointed at firms like yours.
For energy operators
The work controls remote and vendor access before it reaches anything operational, sequenced so security never competes with uptime.
For government contractors
The work maps to NIST 800-171 controls and produces the documentation an assessor expects to see.
One program. The difference is what's at stake and which controls move first.
The Droptine process
Find the exposure
Assessment first — a ranked picture of where risk actually lives, before anyone quotes you a tool. The findings drive the engagement, not the other way around.
Lock down what matters
The highest-consequence fixes first. You approve the sequence and know the reason for every line on it.
Maintain the program
The program you buy in month one is only worth what it looks like in month eighteen. Monitoring, access reviews, and documentation keep pace with the business, so what you bought stays what you have.
Common reasons companies call
- "A client, insurer, or prime just sent a security questionnaire we couldn't answer."
- "We have IT support, but nobody actually owns security."
- "We bought tools over the years. We don't know if they're configured right."
- "An employee clicked something, and it scared us."
- "We need WISP or CMMC help that ends in implementation, not a binder."
- "Vendor access has piled up and nobody's reviewed it."
Frequently asked questions
Is this a one-time project or an ongoing service?
It usually starts as an assessment, and the findings tell us what kind of engagement makes sense. But security is a program, not a project — controls drift the moment people and systems change. The ongoing piece is what makes the first project worth paying for.
Can you work with our existing IT provider?
Yes, and it's common. IT keeps things running; we own security — access, monitoring, response, documentation. Good providers welcome the second set of eyes. If your current one treats a security review as interference, that's information worth having.
What does this cost?
It depends on headcount, systems, and obligations, which is why the assessment comes first. What we commit to: pricing in writing, scoped before work starts, with the business reason for every line.
Do you handle incident response?
Response planning is built into the program. Availability, escalation paths, and emergency terms live in the service agreement — ask, and we'll walk through exactly what's covered before you sign anything.
Can you help with cyber insurance questions?
Yes — carrier questionnaires ask about MFA, backups, endpoint protection, and response planning, which is exactly the work we do. We can't guarantee coverage or pricing outcomes; we can make sure your answers are true, current, and documented.
How fast do we see results?
The assessment itself usually surfaces fixes worth making immediately (MFA gaps, dormant accounts, exposed services), so early wins are common. The deeper program work gets sequenced from there.
Know what's exposed. Fix what matters.
If you can't say with confidence what an attacker would find, that's the first thing to fix — and it takes one conversation to start.