Pearce IT

Cyber security

Business Cyber Security Services and Protection

Small and mid-sized businesses are targeted precisely because they are assumed to be soft. Protection is not one product; it is a managed set of controls - endpoint protection, email filtering, multi-factor authentication, a managed firewall, vulnerability scanning, verified backup and a tested incident response plan - watched continuously so a gap is found by us before it is found by someone else.

The practical goal is simple: make the attacks that actually hit small business - phishing, credential theft, ransomware - fail, and make sure that if something does get through, you can recover and keep trading. Everything here is scoped to that, and to the questions your insurer and your larger customers are now asking you.

Included

What you get

Risk assessment and advisory

A plain-language read of where you are exposed, what it would cost you, and what to fix first - the basis for every other decision here.

Endpoint and email protection

Managed protection on every device and filtering in front of every mailbox, because that is where the attacks arrive.

Multi-factor authentication

Enforced across Microsoft 365, remote access and anything else that matters. The single highest-value control there is.

Managed firewall and VPN

The network edge configured, monitored and kept current, with secure remote access that does not mean an open port to the world.

Vulnerability scanning

Regular scans of what you run, so known weaknesses are patched before they are used against you.

Backup and continuity

Backups that are restore-tested, email continuity, and a business continuity plan that has been written down and rehearsed.

Incident response planning

Who does what, in what order, when something happens - agreed in advance, not improvised at midnight.

Staff awareness

Your people are the most-attacked surface you have. Short, practical training that changes behaviour, not annual box-ticking.

Managed intelligence

How the platform changes this

Security tooling generates more alerts than any small team can read. Our platform correlates them - the failed logins, the unusual mail rule, the device that stopped reporting - and raises what matters with context attached, around the clock. An experienced operator decides the response; nothing on your systems is changed without a human approving it.

How managed intelligence works

Who it is for

  • Businesses that have been asked to complete a cyber-insurance or supplier security questionnaire and are not sure how to answer it
  • Owners who suspect "we have antivirus" is no longer a strategy
  • Practices and firms holding client data that they cannot afford to lose or leak

Straight answers

We are small - are we really a target?

Yes, and specifically because you are small. Attacks against small business are largely automated and opportunistic: they go wherever the controls are weakest. Being too small to bother with is not a defence; being harder than the next business is.

Will this satisfy our cyber-insurance questionnaire?

The controls above map closely to what insurers ask about - MFA, endpoint protection, backup, patching, incident response. We help you answer the questionnaire accurately, and where the honest answer is currently "no", we tell you what it would take to change it.

What if we already have some of this in place?

Good - we assess what you have, keep what works, and fill the gaps. Replacing working tools for the sake of it is not security, it is churn.

Also

Find out what you are actually running.

A 30-minute review, no obligation. You get a written summary of what is exposed, what is unsupported and what it would take to fix - whether or not you use us.