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Small business security, without the enterprise price tag
You don't have an IT department. You have a business to run, and somewhere in the back of your mind, a worry that one bad email could take the whole thing down for a week.
That worry is reasonable. The fix costs less than you think, and it doesn't require you to learn a single acronym.
Prefer email or phone? info@nubivance.com or 207-358-0999.
Most people call us for one of four reasons
Your cyber insurance renewal showed up. The questionnaire asks whether you have multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, tested backups, and an incident response plan. You're not sure what half of that means, and you're definitely not sure how to answer honestly without raising your premium. We answer it with you, and where the answer is "no," we tell you what it costs to make it "yes."
A customer sent you a security questionnaire. A bigger client wants proof you won't be the weak link before they renew. These land with a deadline and no instructions. We fill it out, flag what needs fixing first, and get you back to the customer quickly.
Something already happened. An email account got taken over. A wire almost went to the wrong place. A laptop walked off. You need someone to figure out how bad it is, close the hole, and tell you straight whether you need to notify anyone.
You just know you're exposed. No incident, no deadline, just the reasonable suspicion that if someone came after you, you'd have no idea until it was too late. That's a good instinct and an easy thing to fix.
What you actually get
We start with a security checkup. A few hours of looking at how your business really runs - your email, your files, your backups, who has access to what - followed by a written summary in plain English. Not a vulnerability report with four hundred line items. A short document that says: here's what's fine, here's what would hurt you, here's what to do first, and here's what each fix costs.
Most small businesses need the same handful of things. Multi-factor authentication turned on everywhere. Backups that actually restore, tested rather than assumed. Old accounts shut off. Someone watching for trouble around the clock. None of it is exotic. It's just that nobody has had the time to do it.
The part a local IT shop can't give you
Attacks don't wait for business hours. Most break-ins that turn into disasters start on a Friday night or over a holiday weekend, because that's when nobody is looking.
We're a Rapid7 Certified Partner, which means we can put an enterprise-grade security operations center behind your business - the same monitoring platform used by companies with full security teams, run by analysts who watch it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When something looks wrong at 2 a.m., someone is awake and dealing with it.
You could not build that yourself for any reasonable amount of money. Shared across many customers, it costs about what you'd pay for a decent phone system.
We handle the setup, tune it so it isn't crying wolf, and stay the human you call when something happens. You get one person who knows your business, backed by a platform you'd otherwise never have access to.
What we don't do
We're not a help desk. We don't set up printers, unbox laptops, or come out when the Wi-Fi is slow.
If you already have an IT provider, we work alongside them - we handle security, they handle the day-to-day, and everybody stays in their lane. Most IT providers are glad to have us, because security questionnaires and insurance forms aren't what they're good at either.
If you don't have anyone, we'll tell you honestly whether you need one and can point you to people we trust.
How we price
Every engagement is a fixed price, quoted before any work starts. No hourly billing, no open-ended scope, no invoice that arrives bigger than you expected.
Most first engagements are a single project - a security checkup, or getting you through a questionnaire - not a contract or a retainer. If you want ongoing monitoring afterward, that's a separate decision you make later, priced per month with no long-term commitment.
Tell us what's going on in a couple of sentences and you'll have a number back, usually the same day. If what you need is smaller than what we do, we'll say that too, and point you somewhere better.
Where we work
We're based in Brownfield, Maine, and work across western Maine, the Mount Washington Valley, greater Portland, and the New Hampshire Seacoast. Most of the work happens remotely, but we'll come sit at your table when it matters.
Next step
Tell us what is going on in a couple of sentences using the contact form, or email info@nubivance.com if you prefer. You'll get a straight answer about whether we can help and what it would cost - no sales sequence, no discovery call required.
Run a town office rather than a business? See cybersecurity for small towns. Bigger environment or a compliance program to build? See security engineering and vCxO advisory.