Keeping Strangers Off Your Network
Most break-ins are not clever. They walk through a door somebody left open years ago.
Device count and how much has accumulated over the years. Ongoing monitoring is priced separately per month.
Typical range, not a quote. Your price comes from the free estimate.
The problem
You do not know what is reachable from the internet on your network right now. Somebody set up remote access to a camera or a work machine at some point, using a default password, and it has been sitting there ever since. There is no way for you to tell, and nothing will alert you when it is found.
Why it matters
Small businesses and home offices get hit constantly, not because anyone targeted them but because automated scanning finds open doors everywhere and tries them all, all day. The overwhelming majority of what gets through is boring: a default password nobody changed, a remote access feature switched on for convenience in 2019 and forgotten, a device the manufacturer stopped patching, a router still running the software it shipped with. None of that requires a skilled attacker, only an unlocked door and a machine patient enough to try every door on the internet. Closing them is unglamorous and mostly cheap, and it is the difference between being a target of opportunity and being skipped. Small business network security is largely that: shutting doors nobody meant to leave open, rather than buying anything clever.
Scope
What we actually do
- 01A scan of what is currently reachable from the internet, which is the part almost nobody has ever checked
- 02Default and reused passwords found and replaced, across every device rather than just the obvious ones
- 03Remote access features that were switched on and forgotten, found and closed or replaced with something safe
- 04Firewall rules that actually reflect what you do, rather than whatever the box shipped with
- 05Blocking known-bad sites at the network level, which quietly stops a lot of things before they start
- 06Updates applied to the equipment that runs your network, and a plan for the devices the manufacturer has abandoned
- 07Ongoing monitoring where you want it, so somebody notices when something changes
- 08A plain-language report of what was found, what was fixed, and what you should replace
The obvious doors are shut, you have a written record of what was wrong, and you know which of your devices are too old to trust.
Questions
Questions people actually ask
Who would bother attacking my house or my small shop?
Nobody chose you. Automated scanners try every address on the internet continuously, and they do not care how small you are. That is precisely why the cheap fixes are worth doing, and why small business network security is mostly maintenance rather than a product you buy.
Do you work with businesses outside DC itself?
Yes. Most of the small business network security work we do is across Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland, in shops, clinics, studios and offices of five to fifty people, plus home offices that hold client files.
Is this the same as antivirus?
No. Antivirus runs on a computer. This is about the network and everything else on it: cameras, printers, thermostats, the router itself, none of which run antivirus at all.
What if you find something bad?
We tell you plainly, in writing, and fix what can be fixed within the agreed work. If something is beyond the scope we quoted, you hear that before we do it, not after.
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Equipment we work with: Firewall work on UniFi, Omada, pfSense and OPNsense, with DNS filtering and external port exposure scanning.