Cloud Security · Colorado Springs

Cloud security that holds up to an auditor, without locking your team out.

Most small-business breaches start with a stolen sign-in or a convincing email, not a missing firewall. We put the protections in place that stop those, make sure a restore actually works, and write down the evidence a prime, an insurer or an auditor is going to ask for.

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Where to start

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned

CompTIA Security+ · Network+ · ITIL v3

Documented at handover

Published pricing

What cloud security covers here

Six pieces of work. Most businesses need the first two and the backups; the compliance work applies if a contract or a regulator says it does.

Microsoft 365 & identity

MFA and conditional access configured so people stop working around them, and admin accounts that are not everyone’s daily login.

MFA for every account
Conditional access rules
Legacy authentication blocked
Admin roles separated

Email & phishing defense

The attack that actually reaches your staff. SPF, DKIM and DMARC published correctly, and sharing rules that fit how you work.

SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Anti-phishing and impersonation rules
External sharing controls
Mailbox audit logging on

Azure & hybrid architecture

Cloud and on-premises designed as one environment, with the connectivity and the identity model settled before anything moves.

Tenant and subscription design
Site-to-site and hybrid identity
Migration planning
Documented for the next engineer

Backup & recovery

Backups designed with ransomware in mind — including Microsoft 365, which Microsoft does not back up for you — and restores that get tested.

Microsoft 365 backup
Immutable, off-site copies
Restore testing on a schedule
A recovery plan in writing

Network security

Firewalls, VPN and segmentation, because cloud accounts are reached from somewhere and that somewhere is your network.

Firewall rule review
Remote access VPN
Guest and IoT isolation
Firmware kept current

CMMC & HIPAA

For defense contractors and medical practices: the controls, and the paperwork that proves they exist — CMMC for primes, HIPAA for practices.

NIST 800-171 gap assessment
CUI boundary and enclave design
SSP, POA&M and SPRS score
HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis

What “done” looks like

A sign-in policy rollout, reported the way we report it — each rule either on, or in report-only while we watch what it would have blocked. Nothing gets enforced on your staff before we know what it breaks.

Require MFA · all usersOn

Block legacy authenticationOn

Require compliant device · adminsReport-only · 7 days

Self-service password resetOn

Microsoft 365 backup · daily, immutableOn

The point is not more alerts. It is fewer ways in, and a record of what changed.

Who does the work

Certified engineers — CCNP, MCSE, Security+ and ITIL — with enterprise network experience behind them.

The person who scopes your network is the person who secures your cloud, so neither gets designed without the other. Service-disabled veteran-owned, based in Colorado Springs, working at published rates.

What you get at the end

A written summary of every setting changed
The sign-in and sharing policies, documented
Backup scope, retention and last restore test
Findings we did not fix, and what they would cost
Admin credentials, in your possession

How an engagement runs

Step 1

Assessment

Read-only review of your Microsoft 365 tenant, your backups and how people sign in. You get the findings whether or not you hire us for the fixes.

Step 2

Priorities and price

What to fix first, what can wait, and what it costs — ordered by real risk, not by what is easiest to sell.

Step 3

Rollout

Changes staged, the disruptive ones in report-only first, and announced to your staff before they take effect.

Step 4

Evidence

The written record: what is on, why, and the restore test that proves the backups work.

Frequently asked questions

Does Microsoft back up our 365 data?

Not in the way people assume. Microsoft keeps the service running and holds deleted items for a limited window — typically days to weeks, depending on the setting. Past that, a deleted mailbox, a wiped SharePoint library or a ransomware-encrypted OneDrive is gone. Third-party backup for Microsoft 365 is a separate product, and it is the single most common gap we find.

Will MFA make life harder for our staff?

Done badly, yes — that is why people end up with approved exceptions that quietly undo it. Done properly, most users authenticate once on a trusted device and are not prompted again for weeks. We roll it out in report-only first so you see what it would have blocked before anyone is locked out.

We already have antivirus and a firewall. Is that not enough?

Both matter, and neither one stops the common case: someone types their password into a convincing sign-in page. That is an identity problem. MFA, conditional access and mailbox rules are what close it.

Do you do GCC High migrations?

No. We work in commercial Microsoft 365, including the CMMC work that can be done there. If your contract genuinely requires GCC High, we will tell you that plainly rather than take the project.

Our cyber insurance renewal asks questions we cannot answer.

Bring us the questionnaire. Most of it maps to MFA, backups, patching and logging — the assessment tells you where you actually stand, and the fixes are usually cheaper than the premium difference.

Can you just assess, and we do the work ourselves?

Yes. The assessment stands on its own and the findings are yours. Plenty of businesses take it to an internal IT person and call us for the parts they would rather not touch.

Where we work

On site across the Front Range, and remote anywhere it makes more sense than a drive.

Colorado Springs

El Paso County

Teller County

Including Florissant, Woodland Park, Monument and Divide.

Get a cloud security estimate

Tell us how many people you have and what is prompting this — a contract, an insurer, or a bad feeling. You will get a preliminary range in minutes.

Cloud Security in Colorado Springs