As our world becomes increasingly reliant on technology, more and more of our personal and sensitive information is stored and transmitted online. The rise of cyber threats, such as data breaches, hacking, malware, and identity theft, has made it crucial for businesses to take steps to protect themselves from these risks.

Stafford Associates provides Cybersecurity services based on your Small, Medium or Enterprise Level business needs. Each segment requiring a different approach when managing cybersecurity technology and services.

Stafford's Cybersecurity services are comprised of a range of technologies, processes, and practices that are designed to secure your organization's information and systems against cyber threats and malicious activity.

Small / Medium Sized Business Security Best-practices Implementation Offering

*Requires Managed Services / Endpoint

Stafford Associates can help your small business to protect its devices and systems from threats and malicious actions. The Stafford team will assess your business security requirements and recommend best practices for the security of all your systems. The following items are included in this offering:

We will monitor your traffic logs and alert on any activity that is deemed abnormal or suspicious, and investigate such alerts to their logical conclusion.
We will handle installing updates on all of your devices that we managed so that they are secured from the latest threats
Users are your first and last line of defense. We offer, through an industry-leading trusted partner, managed security awareness training via a centralized cloud portal so that you can gain insight into who has been trained, who is clicking links or otherwise failing phishing tests, and see where you need to put your training efforts by zeroing in on the users and areas that need the most attention.
On a quarterly basis we scan your internal networks as well as any publicly available assets for known vulnerabilities, assign risk ratings, and work with you to come up with actionable remediation plans, which we implement in an expedient manner to keep your company safe.
We will help you build your endpoints and servers according to vetted and industry accepted security standards and best practices. A lot of attacks can be thwarted simply by hardening your systems and your environment from commonly exploited misconfigurations.
Our managed endpoint / EDR solution, which is monitored daily by our in-house cybersecurity team for threats, malware, malicious actions, etc.
We will examine your firewall configurations for:
  • Overly Permissive rules.
  • Best practices as far as security configurations, device hardening, etc.
  • Maximizing the potential effectiveness of your firewall by routinely making sure all of the features are being utilized to their maximum potential.

Enterprise Security Services Offering

*Requires Full Suite of Managed Services

For enterprises looking to outsource their cyber security operations, our enterprise security services offering is for you. Stafford Associates acts as your “virtual CISO” and will provide guidance, expertise, and most importantly the knowledge and experience of our in-house cyber security team with a proven track record of success. We will manage your cyber security operations not only with great care, but will be deeply involved and hands-on with your entire defense-in-depth strategy from implementation to the day-to-day operations.

The following items are included in this offering:

Stafford Associates Becomes your “Managed Security Operations Center.”

We will ingest logs from endpoints, servers, active directory, firewalls, as well as any other sources deemed important and our managed SOC will monitor, detect, and respond to any security events or threats detected.
We will aggressively and routinely update your workstations, servers, network devices, as well as any other platforms deemed necessary in order to protect your environment.

On a quarterly basis we scan your internal networks as well as any publicly available assets for known vulnerabilities, assign risk ratings, and work with you to come up with actionable remediation plans, which we implement in an expedient manner to keep your company safe.

Active Directory, Endpoint Builds, Server Builds, Network Devices, etc. Stafford will implement best practices for the above items and provide a significant attack-surface reduction for your technology assets that we manage, protecting you from commonly abused misconfigurations, escalation paths, and other exploitation.

Our in-house cybersecurity team will tailor to your environment controls, procedures, and safeguards where they feel they are the most needed, as well as mitigate risks according to whatever risk tolerance levels both we and the client can agree upon. Leverage our experience to make smart decisions and to allocate your cybersecurity budget in the right places.

Our managed endpoint / EDR solution, which is monitored daily by our in-house cybersecurity team for threats, malware, malicious actions, etc.

We will examine your firewall configurations for:
  • Overly Permissive rules.
  • Best practices as far as security configurations, device hardening, etc.
  • Maximizing the potential effectiveness of your firewall by routinely making sure all of the features are being utilized to their maximum potential.

Content filtering for your user population can be tricky. What do you allow? What do you block? Do you make exceptions for specific groups? What is the risk involved with allowing access to certain types of web content? Let us figure this all out for you and make sure that your web and content filtering is as secure as possible, while not impacting your users ability to work.

Users are your first and last line of defense. We offer through an industry-leading trusted partner, managed security awareness training via a centralized cloud portal so that you can gain insight into who has been trained, who is clicking links or otherwise failing phishing tests, and see where you need to put your training efforts by zeroing in on the users and areas that need the most attention.

Stay ahead of the curve with our insights and experience working in the world of cybersecurity. Our team will make sure you are always on what we believe is the right track, as one of our core tenets is to always be not only improving, but also on top of the latest threats, intel, trends, and technologies.

Our team will review your in-house policies and procedures and identify any gaps that could potentially cause issues down the road.

We will conduct due diligence reviews on all third-parties your enterprise is involved with and clearly relay to stakeholders risks involved for each relationship on at least an annual basis.

Have public web applications you need to secure? We’ve got you. We can assess your web application vulnerabilities and get you on the path to remediating them quickly, before they lead to a bad outcome.

Let our experienced and knowledgeable networking team make sure your network is at peak performance at all times. We will look at your topology and make design recommendations where necessary, and implement a highly available and robust architecture, keeping your enterprise running reliably.

Our in-house cybersecurity team will always be at your disposal to tackle any challenges, questions, or issues you face. You wont ever be alone or without the proper expertise to aid in your decision making.

Call Stafford Associates Today

Feel free to contact us to find out how we can help to secure your data and help your employees stay safe from malicious attacks and cyber security threats.