Network security should be a number one priority for businesses in the Houston area. With ransomware, hacks, attacks, vulnerabilities and data theft affecting companies all around the world on a daily basis, it’s just a matter of time before your business is hit. Aspendora Technologies’ goal is to provide you with the best network security protection possible, while also keeping your unique needs and budget in mind.
Hacks & Attacks
These days, hackers, attackers, and even automated web bots are all trying to gain access to your network and ultimately access your private customer and business information. When successful, the attackers can lock down your data or worse they can release your customer information to the world.
With the sheer number of security threats faced by companies, it is important to evaluate the vulnerabilities that may affect your business. Lost revenues due to downtime or large fines due to data breaches may not be an option and could affect the overall health of the organization.
Internal Threats
Not only is it necessary to protect a network from outside threats but internal threats can also be a huge vulnerability. Part of a thorough network security plan is ensuring that employees are using best practices and are educated on their role in keeping the network safe.
Compliance
If you store customer data, private information, or take credit cards, network security is no longer an option, but instead is a necessity. Not to mention if you must adhere to HIPAA, SOC, or any other regulations, you need a team that understands these requirements and a team that can provide the pieces necessary to keep you compliant.
How Can We Help?
Protecting your information and your customers’ data is Aspendora Technologies’ specialty.
No single product stops every attack. We layer protections so that when one misses something, the next one catches it, and a real person is watching around the clock.
Every Windows and Mac computer runs endpoint detection and response alongside Microsoft Defender antivirus. Instead of only matching known viruses, it watches for attacker behavior, such as ransomware starting to encrypt files, hidden persistence, or stolen-credential tools, and reports it to a security operations center staffed 24/7 by analysts. When a threat is confirmed, the affected computer can be isolated from the network within minutes, day or night, before the attack spreads.
Most business email compromise starts with a stolen Microsoft 365 password. We enforce multi-factor authentication and Conditional Access, apply a hardened security baseline to every tenant, and continuously monitor sign-ins for account takeover: logins from unusual locations, suspicious mailbox rules, and hijacked sessions. A compromised account can be locked and its sessions revoked quickly, before it's used to send fraudulent invoices or reach your clients.
Email is still the most common way attacks get in. An advanced filtering layer scans inbound mail after Microsoft's own filters, catching the phishing, impersonation, malicious links and attachments that get past them. It protects OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams too, not just email. We also set up and monitor SPF, DKIM and DMARC so criminals can't send email pretending to be you. Learn about our managed DMARC service, or see our step-by-step guide to DMARC compliance.
Your employees are your last line of defense. Short, ongoing training lessons and realistic simulated phishing emails teach your team to spot and report attacks, and give you reports showing who's improving and who needs more help. Many cyber insurance policies and compliance frameworks now require it.
Most successful attacks use weaknesses that already have a fix available. We keep Windows and your third-party applications, including browsers, PDF readers and common business software, updated on a regular schedule, and track which computers are behind.
Your staff work without administrator rights, which blocks most malware from installing itself. When someone genuinely needs to install software, the request is approved just in time. Local administrator passwords are unique to each computer and rotated automatically, so one stolen password can't unlock your whole network.
Company laptops and desktops are managed through Microsoft Intune with enforced security policies and BitLocker disk encryption, so a lost or stolen laptop doesn't become a data breach.
A managed business firewall with intrusion detection and prevention protects your office network, blocking known attack traffic and suspicious connections at the edge.
Remote and traveling staff reach office systems through zero-trust remote access instead of a traditional VPN. Each person or device is granted only the specific systems and ports they need, such as a remote desktop or one application, and nothing else. Access is denied by default and checked on every connection, and nothing on your network is exposed to the internet. So a compromised laptop can’t wander your network, and access can be revoked instantly when someone leaves.
Security logs from your systems are collected and retained centrally, where they're analyzed for signs of attack. When an incident happens, that history shows exactly what occurred, and it's the evidence auditors and insurers ask for.
If the worst happens, you need a clean copy of your data. Servers are backed up to immutable offsite storage that ransomware can't encrypt or delete, and Microsoft 365 email, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams are backed up separately. Microsoft doesn't do this for you. Learn more about data backup and recovery and Microsoft 365 backup.
Every control is documented, including configurations, policies and signed acceptable-use acknowledgments, so you can answer security questionnaires, cyber insurance applications, and HIPAA, PCI or CMMC requirements with evidence rather than guesswork. See our compliance services.
Want to know where your gaps are? Schedule a free discovery call and we'll walk through your current setup.
Small businesses are the #1 target for ransomware and phishing because attackers know they are under-protected.
HIPAA, PCI, CMMC — every regulation has its own requirements and the rules keep changing.
Most breaches start with a single employee clicking a phishing email.
Tell us about your business and your technology challenges. We listen — really listen — and ask the right questions.
We assess your current setup and deliver a clear, jargon-free plan tailored to your business.
We handle this for you so you can get back to doing what you do best.
Managed firewall, endpoint detection and response (EDR), email filtering and anti-phishing, employee security awareness training, Microsoft 365 hardening with multi-factor authentication and account-takeover monitoring, patch management, admin access control, device encryption, zero-trust secure remote access, log monitoring, and immutable backups, all watched by a 24/7 security operations center.
Traditional antivirus looks for known malware. Modern attacks often use stolen passwords and legitimate tools that antivirus doesn’t flag. Endpoint detection and response watches for attacker behavior, and a 24/7 security operations center investigates what it finds. We keep Microsoft Defender antivirus running too, so you get both layers.
Microsoft 365 includes strong security features, but many of them are off or loosely configured by default. We turn on and enforce multi-factor authentication and Conditional Access, apply a hardened baseline, and monitor sign-ins for account takeover. We also add a second email filtering layer and back up your Microsoft 365 data, which Microsoft doesn’t do for you.
Security analysts monitor alerts 24/7. When a threat is confirmed, the affected computer can be isolated from the network right away so the attack can’t spread, even at 2 a.m. or on a holiday. We follow up to clean up the device, find out how it happened, and close the gap.
It happens, and the layers are designed for it. Email filtering stops most phishing before it arrives. Multi-factor authentication stops a stolen password from being enough on its own. Sign-in monitoring flags a hijacked account. Endpoint detection catches malware that runs. Ongoing training and simulated phishing make that click less likely in the first place.
Yes. Most attacks are automated and opportunistic: criminals scan for weak passwords, unpatched systems and exposed services, whatever the company’s size. Small businesses are attractive precisely because they tend to have fewer protections, and a single fraudulent invoice or ransomware incident can cost more than years of prevention.
Usually not. Zero-trust secure remote access replaces the traditional VPN. Each person or device gets only the specific systems they need, nothing on your network is exposed to the internet, and access can be revoked instantly when someone leaves.
Yes. Insurers and larger customers increasingly ask about MFA, endpoint detection, backups, patching and security training. Because every control is documented, we can help you answer those questions accurately and show evidence, which can also help at renewal time.
They’re designed to run in the background. Most of your team won’t notice them day to day. The biggest visible change is multi-factor authentication at sign-in and the removal of everyday administrator rights; when someone needs to install software, they request approval instead of doing it themselves.
Absolutely. We can provide the security layer and 24/7 monitoring while your staff handle day-to-day support. See our co-managed IT services.
Start with a free discovery call. We’ll learn how your business works, review what protections you already have, and give you a clear, plain-English plan for closing the gaps, prioritized by risk and budget.
Yes. We help Houston-area businesses meet HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and CMMC compliance requirements with the right technical controls, documentation, and ongoing monitoring.
Our backup and disaster recovery services let us restore your systems from clean backups, typically within hours. We also conduct an incident response review to identify the entry point and prevent re-infection.
Not in the way most people assume. Microsoft keeps its service running and protects against losing its own data centers, but under its shared responsibility model, your data is your responsibility. Microsoft 365 has recycle bins and retention features, but they are time-limited and not designed for restoring your business after a mistake or an attack. Microsoft’s own services agreement recommends that customers regularly back up their content with a third-party service.
More than you’d think:
An independent backup lets us restore a single email, a folder, or an entire mailbox or site to a point in time before the problem.
Not long. By default, deleted email can be recovered for 14 days (at most 30), SharePoint and OneDrive recycle bins keep files for 93 days, and a deleted user’s mailbox and OneDrive are only recoverable for about 30 days. Problems like ransomware or a quietly compromised account are often discovered after those windows close. Our Microsoft 365 backup covers email, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, stored separately from Microsoft 365, with much longer retention. Learn more about Microsoft 365 backup.
An immutable backup can’t be changed, encrypted or deleted by anyone, including an administrator, until its retention period ends. It’s stored offsite, separate from your network, so even if an attacker takes over your servers and your admin accounts, the backup copies stay untouched.
Because modern ransomware goes after backups first. Before encrypting anything, attackers look for backup servers, connected drives and cloud backup accounts, and delete or encrypt them so you have no choice but to pay. An ordinary backup is only as safe as the passwords that protect it. With immutable offsite backups, there is always a clean copy they can’t reach, which turns a ransomware attack from a potential business-ending event into a restore.
No. A drive left plugged in gets encrypted along with everything else, and file sync services such as OneDrive or Dropbox faithfully copy deletions and encrypted files to every device. Sync keeps files in step; it doesn’t keep history. A real backup keeps multiple versions over time, stores them separately from your systems, and at least one copy should be offsite and immutable.
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