Ransomware
Someone runs a program on one machine, it spreads to the shares, and by morning the files that run your business open as nonsense. The demand arrives afterwards.
CyberThreat Help is protective coverage for businesses that do not have a security department and were never planning to build one. Six numbered rungs. Each is a working product carrying a published rate, put in place and then kept under watch by the Fortify 24x7 desk. Climb as far as you sensibly can, in order.
No sirens and no statistics you cannot check. These are the six ways small businesses actually lose money and records, written plainly, each pointing at the rung that covers it.
Someone runs a program on one machine, it spreads to the shares, and by morning the files that run your business open as nonsense. The demand arrives afterwards.
The message comes from a supplier you know, quoting a job you recognise, asking you to update the bank details. The account is theirs. The money goes once.
Nobody breaks in. They sign in, because the password was reused somewhere that got breached. Then they read mail quietly for a fortnight before doing anything.
It went missing from a car, a coffee shop, or an airport. The question is not whether it was expensive. The question is what was on the disk and whether it was encrypted.
A folder is dragged into the wrong place, a client list is attached to the wrong reply, or a year of records is deleted by someone tidying up. No attacker involved.
It sits in the corner running the label printer, three years behind on patches, and every scan of your address finds it. It is usually the way in.
Every rung is bought on its own and priced per unit, so you are never buying a bundle to reach the one thing you needed. Nothing here requires the rung below it, but the order is the order we would do it in.
Software raises the alarm. People decide what it meant. Both halves are included in the rate, which is the difference between buying a licence and buying coverage.
Every brand here is operated by Fortify 24x7, a managed security and IT provider that has run client environments across North America for more than eleven years, built on more than thirty years of hands on IT experience. You are buying from the same team that answers when something goes wrong.
When we act on your behalf you are told what we saw, what we did, and what is left for you. Silence is reserved for the days when nothing happened, and the monthly record shows you those too.
Nothing. Subscriptions are monthly and cancelling stops the next charge. There is no notice period to serve and no year long commitment holding you in place.
Preparedness is boring on purpose. Here is the whole procedure, start to finish, with our part and your part marked.
Machines, mailboxes, phones, servers, and the cloud accounts that hold your records. Most businesses are out by a third, always in the direction of more.
Backup and detection first, because one lets you get back and the other tells you something is wrong. Everything else is built on those two.
You give us access, we deploy the agents and connect the tenants, and we confirm each item is reporting. Normally the same business day.
Restores are tested on a schedule and you get the dated evidence. After that the desk watches it and you get told when something needs you.
The six lines most businesses start with, one drawn from each rung. Set a quantity, add it, and the total is worked out as you go. The full sheet of twenty four lines is on the coverage page.
Everything sold here is protective coverage bought in advance. It is not an emergency incident response retainer, and buying a subscription today does not put a responder on a plane tomorrow.
Where an attack is live at this moment, work of that sort is taken on directly by the Fortify 24x7 operations team. Send a note to support@cyberthreat.help, or raise a case from the client portal, and describe plainly what you are seeing.
We also do not sell cyber insurance, we do not offer legal advice on breach notification, and we will not tell you that any product on this page makes a business impossible to harm. What these lines do is make the common failures survivable, and make the uncommon ones visible early.