Cybersecurity for businesses where the stakes are higher.
A breach impacts more than just you. It costs clients, contracts, or production, for weeks, months, and years. Droptine protects financial firms, energy operators, and government contractors — and the work they can't afford to lose.
30 minutes. A strategic conversation. Clear next steps.
The risk nobody assigned
Most breaches don't start with a genius hacker. They start with a door nobody was watching.
An email account with more access than anyone remembers granting. A vendor login that still works six months after the contract ended. A laptop that goes home to an unsecured network. A backup that has never been restored, not even once, to see if it actually works.
Your portal vendor protects the portal. Your software vendor protects the software. Your IT provider closes tickets.
Nobody owns the whole picture. That's the job Droptine takes.
All industries share one thing in common: a breach costs more than data.
Financial Providers
Your clients hand you their tax returns, Social Security numbers, and bank details. They assume the systems holding that information are as careful as you are.
A secure portal is one layer. The email accounts, laptops, and downloads around it are where firms actually get hurt — and where the FTC Safeguards Rule and IRS expectations now point.
Energy + Oil/Gas
In energy, the question isn't just "what data could leak?" It's "what stops moving?"
The connections that make an operation efficient — remote monitoring, vendor support, cloud dashboards — are also paths an attacker can use. Droptine secures those paths from the office side in, treating uptime as a hard constraint, not a footnote.
Government Contractors
If you handle CUI, your security posture decides whether you can keep bidding.
Droptine helps small and mid-sized contractors get CMMC-ready the practical way: scope what's actually in play, fix the controls that matter, build the documentation an assessor expects to see.
Security that covers the places work actually happens.
Risk lives in the everyday systems your team touches:
Email and the accounts that open everything else
Laptops, desktops, and phones — wherever they travel
Cloud apps and the permissions inside them
Remote access and vendor connections
Backups, and whether they'd actually restore
The documentation regulators, insurers, and primes ask for
Services
Managed Cybersecurity
Find the exposure, fix the gaps that matter most, and keep someone watching as the business changes. Assessments, email and identity protection, endpoint security, monitoring, response planning, and the documentation behind it.
Managed IT
The day-to-day foundation: devices, user support, cloud workspace, backups, onboarding and offboarding. Run well, IT quietly closes the gaps attackers count on.
A practical path from exposure to control.
Find the exposure
We map where your data, access, vendors, and devices create risk. Expect to learn something uncomfortable in the first conversation. Better now than later.
Lock down what matters
Highest-consequence gaps first — not the longest checklist, not the loudest tool. You'll know what we're fixing and why it's ahead of everything else.
Maintain the program
People join, people leave, vendors change, systems drift. Security that was set up once and left alone is security that used to work. We keep the program current and documented.
Built for serious work, not security theater.
No scare tactics. No tool-first selling. No report that leaves you stuck.
Financial firms, energy operators, and defense contractors can't afford a provider that learns the stakes after something goes wrong. That's the profile Droptine was built for — and the controls we implement are the ones cyber insurers and prime contractors ask about by name.
Austin Buonasera brings deep technical and government-side security experience to the technical work. Clayton Hauk has spent his career building and running businesses, and keeps the engagement practical: clear scope, work that maps to how your company actually operates, and developing the plan needed to secure your most valuable assets.
Not sure what's exposed? Start there.
Answer a short set of questions about email, devices, vendors, backups, and access. No passwords, no system details — just the questions an attacker has already answered about you.
Learn what needs attention before it becomes urgent.
Guidance from our expert team on client-data protection, CMMC readiness, vendor access, backups, and the questions insurers ask.
Why a Secure Portal Isn't Enough for an Accounting Firm
Financial Providers • 4 min read
The Vendor Access Review Every Operator Should Run This Quarter
Energy + Oil/Gas • 4 min read
What to Do After a CMMC Gap Assessment (Besides Panic-Shopping Consultants)
Government Contractors • 5 min read
Common questions
What does Droptine Group do?
Two things, built to work together: managed cybersecurity (finding and closing exposure, monitoring, response planning, documentation) and managed IT (devices, users, access, backups, support). For businesses where a breach costs clients, contracts, or production.
Who does Droptine work with?
Mainly financial firms, energy and oil/gas companies, and government contractors. The common thread is consequence: sensitive data, critical operations, or contract eligibility on the line. If that describes your business and your industry isn't listed, talk to us anyway.
How do we start?
A 30-minute consultation — practical questions, plain English, and a straight read on where you stand. If you'd rather look before you talk, take the risk self-assessment first.
Find out what's exposed — before someone else does.
One consultation. Practical questions about your environment, straight answers about your risk, and a clear next step — whether or not you hire us.