Alienstech Cybersecurity
Practical security for businesses without a security team, prioritized by what actually gets companies compromised.
Small businesses are targeted because they are reachable, not because of what they hold. Most incidents start in the same few places: a password reused from somewhere else, a convincing email, an unpatched system exposed to the internet, or remote access that was never meant to be permanent.
Which is encouraging, because it means a short list of unglamorous measures removes most of the risk.
Sound familiar?
- Staff reuse passwords across business and personal accounts
- A convincing invoice email nearly got paid
- There is no way to tell whether an account has been accessed by someone else
- Cyber insurance is asking questions nobody can answer
- A client or regulator has started asking about security controls
- Everyone in the office is a local administrator on their computer
How Alienstech handles it
Work is prioritized by effect rather than by product. The order is usually similar:
- Multifactor authentication on email, remote access and anything reachable from the internet
- Administrative rights removed from daily accounts and separated from everyday use
- Patching on a schedule for operating systems and the applications attackers actually target
- Endpoint protection that detects behavior, monitored rather than just installed
- Backups that are off site and cannot be reached from the network they protect
- Email authentication records set correctly so your domain is harder to impersonate
- Staff given a short, practical briefing on what a real attempt looks like
- Logging kept long enough to answer the question of what happened
Where a cyber insurance questionnaire or a client security review is driving this, the answers are documented as the work is done, which is usually most of the paperwork solved.
What you get
- The common routes into a small business closed off
- Insurance and client questionnaires answerable with evidence
- A clear picture of what is protected and what is not
- Staff who recognize an attempt rather than fall for it
- Security decisions written down and reviewable