Soft ComputersCybersecurity services for Toronto small businesses
Most breaches at small businesses are not sophisticated. They are a phished password, an unpatched firewall, or a backup that was never tested. Practical security closes those doors first.
We secure businesses across the GTA with layered, measurable controls: hardened identities, patched systems, monitored endpoints, trained staff, and a written plan for the day something still gets through.
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Problems this solves.
These are the situations that bring businesses to this service. If more than a couple sound familiar, this service is for you.
- The cyber-insurance renewal asks a page of questions nobody in the building can answer.
- Staff forward suspicious emails to each other asking if they are real, because there is no better process.
- MFA got rolled out to some people, on some apps, at some point, and nobody knows where the gaps are.
- Antivirus is installed everywhere, and nobody has ever read what it reports.
- Accounts of departed staff get disabled eventually, when someone remembers.
- A business you know got hit by ransomware, and you cannot honestly say you would fare better.
What the service covers.
Security work starts with an honest assessment against a recognized baseline, not a sales pitch. You get a written report of what is exposed, what it would take to exploit it, and what fixing it costs, ranked by real risk.
Security assessments
A structured review of identities, devices, network, email, and backups, delivered as a ranked, plain-language report.
Identity protection
Multi-factor authentication everywhere it matters, conditional access, and removal of stale accounts and excessive permissions.
Endpoint detection and response
Modern EDR on workstations and servers, monitored so alerts are investigated rather than ignored.
Email security
Phishing and spoofing defenses: filtering, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured and verified.
Security awareness training
Short, recurring training and simulated phishing for staff, because people are the most-attacked surface.
Incident response planning
A written, rehearsed plan naming who acts, what gets isolated, and how systems are restored when something gets through.
How it runs.
Controls are then layered in an order that reflects how attacks actually happen: identity first, then endpoints and email, then network, then monitoring and response. Every control we add is one we can verify is still working month after month.
Detection runs continuously. EDR alerts from workstations and servers are investigated as they fire, unusual sign-ins on your identities are reviewed, and patching keeps closing the holes that automated scanning looks for. When something needs a decision from you, it arrives as a plain-language explanation of the risk and the options, not a wall of jargon.
The human layer runs on a calendar. Staff receive short, recurring training and simulated phishing, and the results shape the next round. Controls are re-verified month after month: MFA coverage, backup integrity, stale accounts, email authentication, because a control that silently stopped working is worse than one you know you lack. All of it lands in a scheduled report written for owners.
The sequence is the same every engagement:
Assess
Baseline review of your current posture with a ranked findings report.
Harden
The highest-risk gaps get closed first: identity, patching, email, and backup integrity.
Monitor
Detection tooling comes online and alerts are watched and investigated.
Rehearse
Response plans are written and walked through, and staff training becomes routine.
The first months, stop by stop.
Onboarding runs on a written timeline, so you always know which stop the work is at and what arrives at each one.
- Days 1-30
Assess and close the worst gaps
Baseline assessment against a recognized framework, delivered as a ranked findings report. The highest-risk items get fixed immediately: MFA gaps, exposed services, stale admin accounts.
- Days 31-60
Layer the controls
Managed EDR deployed across workstations and servers, email authentication configured and verified, endpoints hardened, and backup integrity confirmed by actual restores rather than assumption.
- Days 61-90
Rehearse and make it routine
The incident response plan is written and walked through with your team, awareness training and phishing simulation begin their cadence, and the first posture review assembles the evidence insurers ask for.
The practical details.
What we run it on
- Endpoint protection
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or a comparable managed EDR, with alerts triaged by our team rather than left unread in a console
- Identity security
- Entra ID conditional access, MFA enforcement, stale account reviews
- Email defense
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace filtering, with DMARC taken to an enforcing policy and external senders flagged
- Human layer
- Recurring awareness training and simulated phishing campaigns
Right for you if
- Small businesses whose cyber-insurance renewal now demands controls they do not have
- Firms holding client funds, records, or personal information, where one incident means lost trust
- Teams that bought security tools but have nobody watching what they report
Comfortable alongside
Questions owners ask.
We are a small company. Are we really a target?
Yes, precisely because attacks are automated. Bots scan for exposed services and weak credentials regardless of company size, and small businesses are attractive because defenses are usually thinner. Most of what we remediate was found by automation, not by a human picking a victim.
Do you help with compliance requirements?
We implement and document the technical controls that frameworks and insurers ask about: MFA, EDR, backup testing, access reviews, and incident response plans. If you face a specific audit, we prepare the technical evidence with you.
What does a security assessment involve?
A review of identities, devices, network equipment, email configuration, and backups, checked against a recognized baseline. You receive a written report ranking each finding by risk, with a realistic remediation plan. It is diagnostic, not a sales document.
What should we do first with a limited budget?
Multi-factor authentication, tested backups, and patching. Those three controls stop the most common incidents: account takeover and ransomware, and they cost far less than recovering from either.
Start with a free assessment.
The first step is a conversation and a written assessment: what you have, what is at risk, and what we would do about it. The report is yours to keep, whether or not you hire us.
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