Small Business Security Assessment

The Small Business Security Assessment is an in-depth diagnostic tool designed specifically for small businesses, startups, and non-profits seeking an objective audit of their cyber risk. It reviews the business across six essential pillars: Identity & Authentication, Endpoint Security, Network & Wi-Fi, Data Backup & Resilience, Employee Training, and Vendor Governance.

It pinpoints critical organizational exposures—such as lack of MFA on corporate email, untested local backups vulnerable to ransomware encryption, shared administrative accounts, and missing wire fraud verification procedures—generating a customized risk reduction roadmap.

Historically, security advice focused almost entirely on prevention: keeping threat actors out with firewalls and antivirus. However, in an era of sophisticated social engineering, compromised third-party software updates, and zero-day exploits, 100% prevention is an impossible standard. Even well-defended organizations will eventually experience a compromised credential or malicious email click.

The modern "Assume Breach" paradigm acknowledges this reality and prioritizes Resilience and Blast-Radius Containment. By enforcing least-privilege permissions (so a compromised user account cannot access company-wide financials), implementing microsegmentation (so an infected laptop cannot reach other computers), and maintaining isolated, immutable backups, an organization ensures that an incident remains a minor isolated issue rather than an existential business crisis.