Attacks increasingly target SMBs. Modern EDR, managed firewall, user training, incident response plan.
Attackers know that large companies have dedicated security teams. SMBs often have just a basic antivirus and no one watching. The result: 60% of cyberattacks now target SMBs.
Our approach: we bring the protection level of a dedicated security team at a price that works for SMBs. Modern EDR (behavioural detection, not just signatures), managed firewall, ongoing user training (phishing), documented incident response plan.
We're not an MSSP selling $50K/year SOC services. We're an MSP doing pragmatic SMB security.
Detects suspicious behaviour (mass encryption = ransomware), not just known signatures.
We configure, monitor and update. You don't have to learn Fortigate.
Microsoft 365, VPN, critical applications — password-only attacks become impossible.
Periodic phishing simulations. Your employees become a layer of defence.
If it happens: who you call, what you disconnect, how you communicate. Documented.
Documentation, retention, incident notification process.
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Antivirus catches known threats. EDR watches behaviour: a process encrypting files, a login from an impossible location, a script running where it never runs. Every Mac and PC in your fleet reports to one console, and a real technician investigates the alerts instead of leaving them to pile up.
MFA on email alone is not enough. We enable it on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, VPN, remote access and your admin accounts, then handle the part most providers skip: onboarding your staff so they stop writing codes on sticky notes.
Most breaches in a small business start with one convincing email. We filter inbound mail, flag external senders, block look-alike domains, and run short awareness sessions so your team recognises an invoice fraud attempt before accounting pays it.
FileVault and BitLocker on laptops, off-site encrypted backup for servers and cloud data, and restoration tests on a schedule. A backup nobody has ever restored is a hypothesis, not a safety net. This is what turns a ransomware incident into a bad afternoon instead of a closed business.
Unpatched software is the second most common entry point. Updates are applied on a schedule outside your busy hours, admin rights are removed where they are not needed, and departing employees lose access the same day.
Quebec's Law 25 requires you to protect personal information and to report certain incidents. We document what you hold, who can reach it, and the steps to follow if something happens, so you are not writing a plan during the emergency.
Attackers do not pick you personally. They scan for exposed services, reused passwords and unpatched machines, then automate the rest. A 15-person firm with a cloud file share and no MFA is a faster payday than a bank, and everyone in the chain knows it.
The cost is rarely the ransom itself. It is the days of stopped production, the clients told their data may have leaked, the insurer asking for proof of controls you never put in place, and the forensics bill. For a Montreal SMB, a week of downtime usually costs more than several years of managed security.
This is also why security cannot be a separate product bolted onto IT support. The same team that manages your devices, accounts and backups has to own the security baseline, or the gaps appear exactly where responsibilities meet.
Managed IT services · IT support · Free SMB cybersecurity self-assessment · EDR vs traditional antivirus
For a company of about 25 employees, a managed security baseline (EDR, MFA, email filtering, encrypted backup, patching, reporting) typically runs a few hundred dollars per month, and it is usually included in our managed IT plans rather than sold separately. A single ransomware incident costs far more.
Both are possible, but we are honest about the limits. Security applied to a fleet we do not manage means we can detect problems without being able to fix the underlying causes. Most clients get better results with security included in their managed IT plan.
Antivirus compares files to a list of known threats. EDR analyses behaviour and can isolate a device automatically when something looks wrong, which is what stops modern ransomware. EDR also leaves a trail investigators can follow after an incident.
Macs are well designed, but they are not immune, and the most common attacks today target people and accounts rather than the operating system: phishing, stolen credentials, malicious browser extensions. As an Apple Technical Partner we secure mixed Mac and Windows fleets with the right tools for each platform.
It supports it. Encryption, access logging, MFA, backups and an incident response plan are concrete controls the law expects. Full compliance also depends on your internal policies and the personal information you actually hold, which we help you document.
Free security audit: we identify the main gaps and propose a realistic plan.