Small Business Network Security Score

The Small Business Network Security Score evaluates the defensibility of office, medical clinic, retail, and hospitality networks. It analyzes router firmware hygiene, Wi-Fi security protocols, guest isolation, remote administrative access, and payment terminal segregation.

It instantly calculates an objective 0–100 score, highlighting dangerous configurations such as unsegmented guest Wi-Fi allowing customers to access office printers, default router administrative passwords, and exposed remote management interfaces.

In retail and hospitality businesses, credit card payment terminals and POS computers are high-value targets for RAM-scraping malware (like BlackPOS). When a small business operates a "flat" network—where office computers, public customer Wi-Fi, and payment terminals all share the same subnet—a compromise on any employee laptop grants an attacker direct access to sniff network packets and compromise payment terminals.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) mandates strict Network Segmentation. By isolating payment hardware onto a dedicated, firewalled VLAN that cannot communicate with office workstations or the guest Wi-Fi, the business drastically reduces its PCI-DSS compliance audit scope and neutralizes lateral movement threats.