Business Cybersecurity for Greater Sudbury & Northern Ontario

Endpoint protection (EDR) on workstations and servers, multi-factor authentication enforcement, email filtering and anti-phishing, Microsoft 365 hardening and conditional access, security awareness training with phishing simulations, patch management, backup strategy designed to survive ransomware, and incident triage when something looks suspicious. It's a layered program, not a single product.

Yes. Most attacks today are automated and target small businesses precisely because they often have weaker defences. Being in Northern Ontario is not protection: attackers scan every IP on the internet, and phishing emails don't care where your office is. Basic controls (MFA, endpoint protection, email filtering, and trained staff) prevent the vast majority of incidents and protect your data, your clients, and your insurance posture.

Yes. Microsoft 365 is the single highest-value target for most SMBs, and default tenant settings are not secure. We review and harden Microsoft 365 tenants: enforce MFA, remove legacy authentication, configure conditional access, tighten sharing controls, enable mailbox auditing, tune anti-phishing policies, and clean up admin role hygiene. It's one of the highest-impact security improvements a business can make.

Existing clients get immediate incident triage: isolate affected accounts and devices, preserve evidence, reset credentials, revoke sessions, and coordinate recovery from backup. We also help with disclosure obligations under PIPEDA and PHIPA where applicable, coordinate with your cyber insurer, and run post-incident hardening so it doesn't happen again.

Cyber insurance renewals now include detailed technical questionnaires covering MFA on email and remote access, EDR, backup segmentation, patching cadence, and security awareness training. Answering 'no' or 'we're not sure' either raises your premiums, reduces your coverage, or gets you declined outright. We build a security program aligned with what insurers actually ask, and give you documented evidence to answer honestly.

Yes. Ongoing training and phishing simulations for staff, with reporting so you can see who is at risk and demonstrate a training program for insurance and audit purposes. The goal isn't to trick people. It's to build a workforce that can spot a suspicious email before clicking, and knows exactly what to do when they're not sure.

Yes. A one-time security assessment reviews your Microsoft 365 tenant, endpoint protection, backup posture, network exposure, MFA coverage, and staff training, then delivers a prioritized remediation roadmap you can execute with us or on your own. No 200-page audit report nobody reads: just the specific gaps and what to do about them, in priority order.

Monitoring and automated response run continuously. Endpoint protection and Microsoft 365 identity are watched around the clock by our EDR and detection platforms, which block and isolate threats automatically, including impossible-travel logins, credential-theft patterns, and ransomware behaviour. Technician triage happens during business hours, with critical alerts escalated after hours under managed agreements. We do not operate a fully staffed overnight security operations centre, and we will not claim one.

We start with the risks your business actually faces: what data you hold, who wants it, which regulations apply, and what your cyber insurer is asking. From there we prioritize controls with the highest impact per dollar, such as MFA, EDR, email security, and backup segmentation, before layering in more advanced controls. Nobody needs every product on the market. Everyone needs the fundamentals done properly.

Yes. We take on incident-response engagements for non-clients when capacity allows: containment, credential resets, forensic preservation, and coordination with your cyber insurer's breach counsel. Post-incident we can help remediate the underlying gaps or hand you a documented plan to remediate elsewhere.

For most SMBs, quarterly is the right cadence for reviewing patching, tenant configuration drift, admin roles, MFA coverage, and phishing simulation results. Formal reassessments happen annually, or after any significant change: new office, new line-of-business software, an acquisition, or an incident. Security drifts if it isn't watched.

Where they're doing the job, yes. We're vendor-neutral and won't rip and replace security tooling that's working. Where existing tools are inadequate, such as consumer antivirus, no EDR, unsegmented backups, or no MFA on remote access, we recommend a change and explain why, but the decision is yours.