For most small and mid-market businesses in the Chicago area, IT compliance comes down to three or four obligations, not thirty: whatever regulation covers your data (HIPAA if you touch health information, the FTC Safeguards Rule if you do any lending or financial services, PCI DSS if you take cards), whatever your largest customers demand…
DetailsCyber insurance carriers now treat a short list of security controls as the price of admission: multi-factor authentication on everything (email, remote access, VPN, and administrator accounts), endpoint detection and response on every machine, backups that are offline or immutable and have been test-restored, email filtering, security awareness training, a documented patching cadence, and separated…
DetailsA SOC 2 audit asks your IT function for eight categories of evidence: user access reviews, documented offboarding, logging and log retention, vulnerability scanning and remediation, change management records, vendor and subservice organization oversight, incident response with proof it was exercised, and security awareness training records. For a Type II report, you have to produce…
DetailsZero trust architecture means no user, device or network location is trusted by default, and every request to reach an application gets evaluated at the moment it is made. In practice, an MSP building one for a Chicago business is doing five things: putting phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication on every account, blocking the legacy protocols that…
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