security · ransomware

Make ransomware a bad afternoon, not the end of your business.

Ransomware is the one that actually closes small businesses: files locked, invoices frozen, and a demand to pay criminals to get your own data back. You can't make yourself un-hackable. You can be a hard target, and you can recover fast enough that an attack is an inconvenience, not a closure. That's what we build.

in plain terms

Ransomware is software that locks your files and demands payment to unlock them. It almost always gets in through an ordinary thing - a fake email, a stolen password, or a computer that missed an update - not some movie hack. Real protection is two jobs: make it hard to get in (email authentication, MFA, patching, endpoint protection) and make sure you can get your data back without paying (backups you have actually tested restoring from). Do both, and a ransomware attack becomes a bad afternoon instead of a closed business.

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how it actually gets in

It's rarely a movie hack.

A fake invoice emailSomeone spoofs a supplier - or you - and a staff member pays or clicks. Invoice fraud and phishing are the number-one way in.
A stolen passwordA reused or phished password lets an attacker walk in the front door, no hacking required.
An unpatched holeA computer or server that missed an update, sitting open for months until someone finds it.
A dodgy downloadA macro in a document, a cracked app, a USB stick. One click on the wrong machine.

the layers

Hard to get in.

No single thing stops ransomware. A few cheap, high-impact layers together make you a target that isn't worth the effort.

Stop the impersonation

Email authentication - SPF, DKIM and DMARC - so criminals can't send email as your business, plus filtering that catches the phishing that does arrive.

A password isn't enough

MFA and conditional access everywhere, so a stolen or reused password on its own gets nobody in.

Close the holes

Patching and monitoring on every device through managed IT, so the known gaps are shut before they're used.

Catch the payload

Endpoint protection (Microsoft Defender) watching for the thing that slips past everything else, on every machine.

the bit most people skip

Can you actually get your files back?

Most "ransomware protection" stops at keeping attackers out. But the businesses that survive an attack are the ones that can restore their data in hours and never pay the ransom. We back up your Microsoft 365 - email, files, SharePoint - to storage criminals can't reach or encrypt, and we test the restore. Not "we have backups." "We restored a real file this month - here it is."

→ Backups criminals can't encrypt or delete
→ Restores tested every month, not assumed
→ Your files back in hours, not days
→ A written plan so nobody panics on the day

common questions

Ransomware, answered straight.

Does one product stop ransomware?

No. Anything sold as a single "ransomware solution" is overselling. It takes a few layers working together - email authentication, MFA, patching, endpoint protection - plus tested backups so you can recover if something still gets through. We run the lot for you.

Can you guarantee we won't get hit?

No, and anyone who guarantees it is selling you something. The honest goal is hard-target plus fast recovery, so an incident is survivable rather than fatal. That's a goal we can actually deliver and prove.

What happens if we get hit anyway?

You restore from backups we've already tested, without paying the ransom, and we work a response plan agreed in advance. That recovery half is the whole point - it turns a business-ending event into a bad day.

Isn't this just a big-company problem?

The opposite. Small businesses get targeted precisely because they're softer and less likely to have backups. The good news: the high-impact basics - MFA, email authentication, tested backups, patching - are cheap, and we run them for you as part of managed IT.

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