Managed Cybersecurity Services
Most security spending goes to catching attacks. ASG spends it earlier: we standardize your environment to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework so there are fewer ways in to begin with, then keep it there with ongoing technology alignment audits. Layered defense sits on top of that, with a 24/7 Security Operations Center that catches what does get through, isolates it, and remediates.
- ✓Standardized to NIST CSF, so there are fewer ways in
- ✓Alignment audits, quarterly for most clients
- ✓24/7 SOC: detect, isolate, remediate
- ✓EDR on every endpoint and server
- ✓A dedicated email security layer
- ✓MFA, conditional access & geofencing
- ✓Dark-web monitoring for stolen credentials
- ✓Encryption, plus IPS & DNS filtering
- ✓SIEM log correlation & vulnerability scanning
- ✓Phishing simulations & staff training
- ✓A written security plan, with a tested IR plan
Prevention first, then defense in depth
Standardized to NIST CSF
Most environments are a decade of one-off decisions, and every variation is another thing to defend. ASG standardizes yours against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework so configurations, access, and controls look the same everywhere. Fewer variations means fewer ways in, and it means a gap is obvious instead of hidden in someone's exception.
Ongoing Technology Alignment
Hardening decays: new software, new staff, and someone's temporary workaround all pull an environment off standard. Your Technology Alignment Manager audits it against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, and the findings become work that gets done.
24/7 SOC & MDR
A Security Operations Center (SOC) is a team watching security alerts around the clock so nobody at your office has to, and MDR (managed detection and response) is what turns an alert into someone acting on it. Most alerts are noise; sorting the real ones takes people who do this all day. The SOC catches the threat, isolates the affected devices so it can't spread, and remediates.
Antivirus and hope vs. managed cybersecurity
Most businesses that get hit weren't unprotected. They had antivirus, a firewall, and nobody whose job it was to notice.
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| Managed cybersecurity | Antivirus & a firewall | |
|---|---|---|
| Preventing it in the first place | Standardization plus recurring alignment audits | Nobody's actual job |
| How your environment is built | Standardized to NIST CSF, kept there | Years of one-off decisions |
| Known malware | Caught, plus the behavior of new strains | Caught, mostly |
| Ransomware nobody's seen yet | Caught by how it behaves, then contained | Missed, because it isn't on the list |
| Who watches the alerts | A 24/7 SOC that does only this | Nobody, or whoever notices the popup |
| A compromised machine | Isolated remotely before it spreads | Someone has to find and unplug it |
| Stolen employee passwords | Found on the dark web and reset first | You find out when they're used |
| Your staff clicking things | Ongoing simulations and short training | Hope and an annual reminder |
| Proving your controls | A written plan mapped to NIST CSF | A scramble when the form arrives |
| When it does happen | A tested plan naming who does what | Improvise, then call someone |
What else you get
Endpoint Detection
EDR (endpoint detection and response) watches what programs actually do, so ransomware gets caught behaving like ransomware, even a strain nobody has seen.
Email Security
A dedicated defensive layer instead of whatever filtering came with the platform, including the impersonation and wire-fraud patterns built to slip past filters.
Identity Protection
MFA (multi-factor authentication) plus conditional access and geofencing, so a stolen password isn't enough and logins from where you don't operate get blocked.
Dark Web Monitoring
When another company gets breached, your staff's work logins often go up for sale. We watch for yours and get them reset before anyone tries them.
Network Defense
Encryption so a stolen laptop is lost hardware rather than a breach, an IPS (intrusion prevention system) at the edge, and DNS filtering on known-bad addresses.
Log Visibility
SIEM (security information and event management) correlates logs from across your environment, so a pattern spanning firewall, servers and a laptop reads as one story.
Vulnerability Scanning
Missing patches, weak configurations, and forgotten exposures found and turned into work that gets done. Attackers scan for exactly the same things.
Awareness Training
Filtering never catches everything, so the last layer is a person deciding whether to click. Ongoing phishing simulations and short, regular training.
Written Security Plan
A written security plan mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, including a tested incident-response plan: who gets called, what gets isolated, in what order.
Somebody has to check, on purpose, on a schedule
Security decays quietly. A vendor needs an exception, someone installs their own tool, a laptop skips a month of patches, and none of it announces itself. So your Technology Alignment Manager audits the environment against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, and what the audit finds turns into work rather than a PDF. When something does get through anyway, the SOC catches it, isolates the affected devices, and remediates, and we run it to ground from there.
- ✓Audited quarterly for most clients, not once at onboarding
- ✓Findings become scheduled work, not a report
- ✓An engineer answers in about four rings
When did your IT provider last call you first?
Most IT waits for the phone to ring. ASG comes to you before there's something to call about. Here's the mechanism behind that, in writing.
Quarterly Risk Audits
Your Technology Alignment Manager (TAM) audits your environment against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, keeps your documentation current, and flags risk while it's still cheap to fix.
A vCIO Who Owns It
Your virtual CIO writes the policies, builds the rolling technology roadmap, and reviews risk directly with your leadership, so IT decisions get made ahead of the budget cycle instead of after an incident.
Findings Walked Through
That audit is a 317-question assessment across 46 categories. Your TAM and your vCIO each review and date every item, then the findings get walked through with you. Written in business terms, and they become next year's plan.
We'll be the most proactive partner you've ever worked with.
Security that holds up under pressure
Questions, answered straight
Still have a question about your security? An engineer answers in about four rings.
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