The realities for a small business
- Your accounts are the keys to the kingdom. Most small-business incidents aren't exotic hacks — they're a hijacked Google Business Profile, a locked-out Shopify or Square admin, or a takeover of the social account you sell from. One reused password and one missing second factor is usually the whole story. The fix is largely configuration: MFA everywhere and tight admin access.
- You hold customer, tenant, and payment data. Card numbers through your point of sale, names and addresses in your booking or e-commerce system, tenant and owner records (and sometimes SSNs from rental applications) in your property-management portal. Customers, tenants — and your payment processor's PCI rules — expect that data handled carefully, even with a staff of five.
- Money moves by message. Invoices, deposits, vendor payments, rent collection and owner disbursements, and — for real estate — closing and escrow wires are prime targets for payment-redirection fraud. A single altered email can cost more than a year of profit, and wired money rarely comes back.
- Your reputation is online and borrowable. Your reviews, your storefront listing, and your social following are real assets. When an attacker hijacks them — or a fake lookalike page goes up — the damage is to revenue and trust, not just IT.
- Downtime hits the register directly. If the POS is down or the site is offline, you stop selling. Tested backup and a plan to get back up fast are what turn a bad day into an inconvenience.
What we do for businesses like yours
Security assessment
A scored baseline across your accounts, email, devices, customer data, and backup — with a prioritized 90-day fix list. How it works →
Account takeover defense
MFA and recovery set up correctly on the accounts that run the business — Google/Microsoft, Shopify or Square, social, email — plus admin access cleaned up so a single lost password is far less likely to be game over.
Customer & payment data
Sensible handling of card and customer data across your POS and online systems, sharing locked down, and clean offboarding when staff leave.
Email & payment fraud
SPF/DKIM/DMARC done right, lookalike-domain and mailbox-rule checks, and protections against altered invoices and wire-redirection — including closing wires for real estate and rent or owner disbursements for property managers.
Tested recovery
Verified backup for your email, files, and store data — sized for a business where a day offline is a day with no sales.
Staff training
Short, plain, non-condescending phishing training for a small team — available in our ongoing partnership tiers.
Your IT person or provider stays. Whether you run on a laptop and a phone or have an MSP you like, we complement them, never replace them. They keep things running; we set the security roadmap, lock down the accounts, and measure progress in plain English.
Why owners choose us
- About 90% of fixes use what you already own — your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 plan and your store and POS tools already include most of the security you need, just switched off.
- Plain English, no scare tactics — you'll get a clear list of what matters and what it costs, not a fear pitch.
- Built for 1–100 employees — a single-location shop or a two-person agency is not too small.
- Local — Lehi, Utah; in person across Utah County, Salt Lake County, and Silicon Slopes; remote nationwide.
If your payment processor or a partner ever points to PCI or a security checklist, the same assessment baseline feeds straight into it — we cover the security and technology side only, not certification.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of businesses is this for?
Retail shops, e-commerce stores, real estate offices, property management companies, and local service and trade businesses with 1–100 employees. If your business runs on a handful of online accounts and handles customer or tenant payments, this is built for you.
Someone took over our Google Business Profile or Instagram — can you help, and reduce the chance of it happening again?
Our focus is preventing that takeover in the first place — it's the most common incident we see for small businesses. We harden the accounts that run your business — Google, Shopify or Square, social, and email — with MFA, strong recovery options, and cleaned-up admin access, so a single lost password is far less likely to be game over. If an account is already compromised, the recovery process belongs to the platform — we're not an incident-response shop — but we can point you to the right steps and then lock everything down so it doesn't recur.
We only have a few employees — do we really need to worry about PCI or customer data?
Even a small team holds card numbers through the point of sale, customer names and addresses online, and — for property managers — tenant and owner records and rental-application data. Your payment processor's PCI rules apply at any size. We handle that data sensibly, and the same baseline feeds any checklist a processor or partner sends.
We move money by email — rent, owner disbursements, vendor payments, closing wires. How do you stop fraud?
Payment-redirection fraud is where small businesses lose the most. We set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly, watch for lookalike domains and sneaky mailbox rules, and put protections around altered invoices and wire or ACH instructions — including closing wires for real estate and rent or owner disbursements for property managers. No control stops every attempt, but these meaningfully reduce both the odds and the damage.
Do we need new software, and does our IT person stay?
About 90% of fixes configure tools you already pay for — your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 plan and your store and POS tools already include most of the security you need. And we complement whoever handles your IT, never replace them.
Protect the accounts your whole business runs on.
Tell us about your business and we'll get back to you soon. Or call (949) 802-4831, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm MT.