Cybersecurity
Ransomware crews target businesses your size. Be a hard target.
Attackers don’t bother with Fortune 500 defences — they go after SMBs with no monitoring, reused passwords, and untested backups. Of the small businesses hit by a serious cyberattack, roughly 60% never recover. We make sure you’re not one of them.
Defence in depth
Six layers, managed for you
No single product stops modern attacks. Real security is layers — each one catching what the last one missed — monitored and maintained so the protection you bought in January still works in November.
Endpoint Protection
Modern EDR on every workstation and server — not legacy antivirus. It watches behaviour, not just signatures, so a ransomware process gets killed and isolated in seconds, before it can encrypt a second machine.
Email Filtering
Over 90% of breaches start with an email. Advanced filtering strips phishing, spoofed senders, malicious attachments, and impersonation attempts before they ever reach an inbox — with suspicious-message reporting your staff will actually use.
Multi-Factor Authentication
A stolen password should be useless. We roll out MFA across Microsoft 365, VPN, and your line-of-business apps — configured for security and usability, so it protects your accounts without grinding your day to a halt.
Backups That Restore
Ransomware’s only real antidote is a clean, isolated backup — one attackers can’t encrypt too. We keep immutable copies of your critical data and run scheduled test restores, so recovery time is a known number, not a guess made mid-crisis.
Security Awareness Training
Your people are your biggest attack surface — and your best sensor. Short, regular training plus simulated phishing turns “I clicked it, sorry” into “this looked off, so I reported it.” We track click rates so you can watch them fall.
Monitoring & Response
Alerts mean nothing if nobody acts on them. Security events from endpoints, email, and Microsoft 365 feed our monitoring, and our team investigates and responds — isolating machines, disabling accounts, and calling you before it becomes a headline.
Why SMBs get hit
You don’t need enterprise budgets. You need the fundamentals, done consistently.
Most SMB breaches aren’t sophisticated. They’re a phished password with no MFA, a server missing eight months of patches, or a backup that quietly stopped running in the spring. The fix isn’t an expensive appliance — it’s doing the unglamorous fundamentals every single week, which is exactly what a managed security service is for.
Security is built into every Fortitude managed plan, with the full layered stack on Growth and Enterprise tiers. Already have an IT provider? We also run security as a standalone layer alongside them.
See What’s in Each Plan- Ransomware focus — prevention, containment, and tested recovery, in that order
- Cyber-insurance ready — we implement and document the controls your insurer now demands: MFA, EDR, offline backups
- Plain-English reporting — monthly posture reports an owner can read in five minutes
- Incident response plan — who calls whom, what gets isolated, how you keep operating — written down before you need it
- No fear-based upselling — we recommend what your risk profile justifies, nothing more
Find out where you’re exposed — before someone else does
The free assessment includes a security posture review: MFA coverage, patch status, backup health, and email defences, with a prioritized fix list.
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