Cybersecurity services that protect the trust you already earned.
Layered protection, continuous monitoring and people who pick up the phone. systech secures small and mid-sized businesses across Southwest Oregon, without the jargon and without the fear pitch.
Start with what you already have. Most businesses are further along than they think in some areas and further behind in others. An assessment tells you which is which.
Nobody gets attacked because they were important.
Most incidents are opportunistic. Automated tools scan for an unpatched system or a reused password, find one, and move in. Being small is not cover. It is often the reason.
Small and mid-sized businesses tend to carry the same risk as large ones with a fraction of the defense. The data is just as sensitive, the downtime just as expensive, and the obligation to customers just as real. What is usually missing is not effort. It is a coherent plan and someone whose job it is to watch.
Out-of-the-box antivirus and a firewall were adequate when threats came in one shape. They do not cover credential theft, business email compromise or an employee approving a login request they did not make. Those need layers, and layers need maintenance.
What cybersecurity actually means here
Preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction of your information. In practice that is a set of controls across identity, email, endpoints, network, cloud and domain, plus the monitoring that tells you when one of them is being tested and the plan for what happens next.
Building trust through uncompromising security.
Three ways we work, depending on what you need.
Some clients hand us the whole security function. Some have tooling already and need someone watching it. Some just need a straight answer about what to buy. All three are real engagements.
Managed security services
Advanced tooling paired with people who read what it produces. Threats get detected and answered faster because someone is actually looking, wherever your data lives.
Managed detection and response
One security solution covering workstations, servers, email and mobile devices, with unified management behind it. Protection and visibility in the same place instead of four consoles nobody checks.
Cybersecurity consulting
Help choosing and implementing the right tools for your business. Intrusion detection and prevention, incident management, vulnerability management and identity and access. No pressure to buy the whole catalog.
Seven things we do so you do not have to.
These run underneath the service. You will see them in reporting and in the roadmap conversation, not as separate invoices.
Vulnerability management
Continuous scanning for weaknesses across your systems, with the findings ranked so you fix what matters first.
Threat detection
Tooling that flags the unusual, paired with human judgment about whether it is a real problem or a false alarm.
Breach detection
Watching for the signs that someone is already inside, which is a different problem from keeping them out.
Incident response
A defined plan for containment, communication and recovery, agreed before you need it rather than written during it.
Virtual SOC
Security operations coverage without standing up your own team, your own room and your own overnight shift.
Penetration testing
Controlled attempts to get in, run on purpose, so the gaps surface on your schedule instead of someone else's.
Active defense
Looking for attacks in progress rather than waiting for an alert. The proactive half of the job.
Six places your information lives.
Protection has to cover all six or it covers none of them. An attacker only needs the one you skipped.
Identity security
Who can sign in, from where and with what second factor. Most incidents start with a credential, not with code.
Email security
Filtering, authentication and the controls that make an invoice from a spoofed supplier stand out before it gets paid.
End-point security
Every laptop, desktop, server and phone that touches your data, monitored and kept current rather than checked once.
Network security
Firewalls, segmentation and traffic visibility, so a problem in one part of the business does not become a problem everywhere.
Cloud security
Microsoft 365 and the other platforms holding your files. Default settings are a starting point, not a configuration.
Domain security
Your domain name and DNS records, which decide whether mail claiming to be from you is trusted or rejected.
Three things worth protecting.
Not abstractions. These are the losses that show up on a real balance sheet.
Your customers' information
Personal and financial data is the most valuable thing most small businesses hold, and it is not really yours. Losing it is a liability question and a trust question at the same time, and the trust part takes longer to repair.
Your ability to operate
Ransomware does not steal quietly. It locks workstations and servers until the business stops. Every hour your team cannot work is an hour you are paying for twice, once in wages and once in the backlog waiting afterward.
Your public face
A compromised website means lost transactions and a browser warning telling every visitor to stay away. Customers rarely come back to check whether you fixed it.
Start with a baseline. Add depth where you need it.
Every systech managed IT agreement already carries a security baseline. Endpoint protection, patching, backups, email filtering and identity controls are in the price, not sold back to you later.
SecureTrust is what you add when the baseline is not enough: a compliance obligation, a customer security questionnaire, a cyber insurance requirement or simply more exposure than a standard business carries.
Most clients start with managed IT and layer up as their requirements grow. Some come to us for security first. Both work.
Included with managed IT
Endpoint protection, patch management, backup and recovery, email filtering, identity and access controls, 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring.
Added with SecureTrust
Vulnerability management, threat and breach detection, incident response planning, virtual SOC coverage, penetration testing, active defense and formal reporting.
Available either way
Security assessments, cybersecurity consulting, tool selection and implementation, and staff awareness work.
Where do we start?
An assessment. We look at identity, email, endpoints, network, cloud and domain, then show you what we found and what it would take to close each gap. You get the findings whether or not you engage us afterward. Guessing at priorities without that picture usually means spending money in the wrong order.
We already have antivirus and a firewall. Is that enough?
They are necessary and they are not sufficient. Neither one stops a stolen password being used to sign in legitimately, and that is how a large share of incidents begin. The layers that catch those problems sit in identity and email, which antivirus does not touch.
Our cyber insurance sent a questionnaire we cannot answer. Can you help?
Yes, and it is a common reason people call. Those questionnaires ask about controls in specific terms. We can tell you which ones you already meet, which need work and what the gap costs to close, so you can answer honestly rather than optimistically.
Do you have to replace our current tools?
Not necessarily. If what you have is well chosen and simply unmanaged, monitoring and maintaining it is often the better answer. We would rather make your existing spend work than sell a rip and replace you did not need.
What happens if something does get through?
Incident response is agreed in advance: who we contact, how the affected systems are contained, how you communicate with customers and how recovery proceeds. The plan exists before the bad day, because writing one during an incident is how small problems become long ones.
Is this only for regulated industries?
No. Healthcare, financial services and legal practices have explicit obligations, so they come to it sooner. But manufacturers, contractors and professional services firms hold customer data and depend on uptime just the same. The obligation is different. The exposure is not.
How does this relate to your managed IT service?
Managed IT includes a security baseline: endpoint protection, patching, backups, email filtering and identity controls. SecureTrust adds the deeper layer, including vulnerability management, detection and response, incident planning and formal reporting. You can buy either first.
What the internet looks like right now
The map below is a live feed of cyberattacks as they are detected around the world. It is not a view of your network, and nothing on it means your business is being attacked. We put it here because it makes one point better than any statistic can. This activity never stops, it runs at machine speed and it does not skip small towns. Most of the work of keeping a business safe is quiet, constant and invisible. This is the noise it happens against.
Find out where you actually stand.
An assessment takes the guesswork out of it. You will get a clear picture of your current position and a ranked list of what to fix, in plain English and in priority order.
