Straight answers to the questions owners actually ask: what to worry about, what good protection covers, and what to do next. Advice first, no sales pitch.
Short, plain-English answers to the questions that come up in almost every conversation.
If a breach, ransomware attack or wire-fraud scam would seriously hurt your business, it's worth a conversation with your insurance broker. A cyber policy can help pay for incident response, data recovery, legal and notification costs, and income lost while you're down. Policies vary a lot, so read the exclusions. Expect the application to ask about your security, too: insurers commonly ask whether you use multi-factor authentication, backups and endpoint protection.
Not the way most owners assume. Under Microsoft's shared-responsibility model, keeping the service running is Microsoft's job; protecting your data is yours. Deleted email and files can be recovered for a limited time, but once that window passes, or if ransomware overwrites your files or a departing employee's account is removed, getting data back can be hard or impossible. A separate backup of email, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams closes that gap.
DMARC is a record in your domain's DNS that tells other mail servers what to do with email that claims to come from your domain but doesn't. Without it, a scammer can send invoices that look like they came from you. It works alongside two other records, SPF and DKIM, and it's turned on in stages: monitor first, then quarantine or reject the fakes. Google and Yahoo have required DMARC from bulk senders since 2024.
The essentials every small business should have in place — no jargon required.
Laptops, desktops, and servers protected against malware, ransomware, and intrusion.
The #1 way attackers get in. Filtering and protection that stops fake invoices and impersonation.
Microsoft 365, file shares, and cloud accounts secured — and backed up against deletion and cryptolockers.
Security awareness training turns employees from the weakest link into your first line of defense.
You don't need to be. We handle the technical work and explain everything in plain English, so you always understand what you're protected against and why.
Yes — attackers favor small businesses precisely because they tend to have weaker defenses. The good news: a handful of the right protections stops the vast majority of attacks.
EZPZ Cyber, our dedicated cybersecurity practice, packages the protection above into simple plans. Want advice first? Talk to us. No pressure, ever.