RJ2 Technologies is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider in Deer Park, Illinois. We have run security for small and mid-market businesses across the Chicago metro since 1998. We monitor networks, hunt threats on endpoints, lock down email, and get companies through the security questionnaires their insurers and auditors send them. Engineers working downtown use a drop-in space at 333 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 2700, which is a working space rather than a staffed office.
What does a cybersecurity provider actually do for a Chicago business?
A cybersecurity provider runs the controls that keep an attacker out, the monitoring that catches one who gets in, and the response that limits the damage when something happens. At RJ2, that is six things working together:
- Managed detection and response on every endpoint, running SentinelOne and Huntress
- A security operations center watching 24 hours a day, with a human escalation path
- Zero trust access, built on Cisco Duo for multi-factor
- SIEM log collection and correlation, so an incident has a timeline
- Password management and enforced policy
- SaaS application security for Microsoft 365 and the rest of the cloud stack
How do you protect a business against ransomware?
Protecting a business against ransomware is a sequence, not a single product: stopping it from landing, catching it if it does, containing it in the first hour, and being able to restore cleanly when a backup is the only thing left. No single layer is enough on its own, which is why the answer is a stack rather than a tool.
What that looks like in practice:
- Stop it landing. Multi-factor authentication on every account, current patching, blocked legacy sign-in protocols, and email filtering, because most attacks start with a login or an inbox.
- Catch it if it lands. Endpoint detection and response on every machine, backed by a security operations center watching for the behavior that signals an intrusion.
- The first hour. Isolate the affected systems from the network, identify the last clean recovery point before the encryption started, and contain the spread.
- Recover. Restore from an off-site backup copy the attackers could not reach, rebuild clean, and only then reconnect.
Backup is what makes the recovery possible, and it is covered in more depth on our backup and disaster recovery page.
What does email security involve?
Most attacks start in the inbox, so email security is about filtering what arrives, catching impersonation, and training the people who click. Microsoft 365 includes a baseline of filtering, but it does not cover everything, and the gaps are exactly where business email compromise happens.
What RJ2 covers:
- Filtering for spam, malware and known-bad links
- Impersonation and business email compromise protection, the attacks where someone spoofs an executive or a vendor to move money or data
- Hardening what Microsoft 365 includes by default, and adding what it does not
- Security awareness training, because the last line of defense is the person reading the message
Do you serve the Chicago suburbs or downtown?
Deer Park is the headquarters and the address on everything. The downtown space at 333 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 2700 is a working space engineers use when they are downtown for a client, not a staffed reception desk.
What does it cost, and how do we start?
Pricing depends on how many users and endpoints you have and how much of the security stack you want covered, so it is scoped after an assessment rather than quoted off a rate card. Start with a discovery call and we will price it against your actual environment.
