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What attacks look like for a Smyrna business

The cybersecurity Smyrna companies actually need is less about movie-style hacking and more about email, passwords and payments. In 2025 the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 24,768 complaints about business email compromise. Reported losses topped $3 billion. In these schemes a criminal gets into, or imitates, an email account and asks someone to send money to a new bank account. It works because the message looks routine.

The same report shows who ransomware hits outside the critical-infrastructure sectors. Of more than 1,400 such complaints, 18 percent came from legal services, 17 percent from contractors and 10 percent from engineering and architecture firms. That matters here. ZIP 30339, which covers Cumberland, the Galleria and Vinings, has 189 law offices by the Census Bureau's 2023 count.

Risks tied to the local economy

• Law firms and closings: trust accounts, closing funds and confidential files make legal and real estate offices prime targets. IC3 recorded about $275 million in reported real estate fraud losses in 2025.
• Suppliers to large companies: big customers in Cumberland and Vinings expect vendors to protect shared data, and many check with a questionnaire. A breach at a small supplier can end the relationship.
• Restaurants and hotels: card terminals, shared logins and guest Wi-Fi create openings. The card industry's PCI DSS rules expect payment systems to be separated and protected.
• Medical and dental offices: patient records fall under HIPAA, and ransomware that locks the schedule stops the practice cold.

The protections we run

• Multifactor sign-in on email, remote access, banking portals and every admin account.
• Email filtering and anti-spoofing, including SPF, DKIM and DMARC records so criminals can't easily send mail as your domain.
• Endpoint detection and response on every computer, with alerts reviewed by people who act on them.
• Conditional access rules that block sign-ins from unexpected countries or unmanaged devices.
• Network separation for guest Wi-Fi, cameras, card terminals and building systems.
• A password manager to replace shared spreadsheets and sticky notes.
• Short training and practice phishing emails so staff learn what a fake invoice looks like.
• Monthly review of admin accounts, sign-in alerts and mailbox forwarding rules, which attackers often add quietly.

Answering security questionnaires

When a corporate customer sends a vendor security form, the questions are fairly predictable. Do you require MFA? Are laptops encrypted? How often do you patch? Are backups protected from ransomware? Is there an incident response plan? We help you answer accurately, and where the honest answer is no, we close the gap first. Because we run the controls, we can supply the evidence: policies, screenshots and reports. We won't claim certifications you don't hold.

If something happens

If an account is taken over or a device is infected, we isolate it, reset credentials, check what was accessed and restore from clean backups. We help you decide who to notify, such as your bank, insurer, clients or patients, and document what happened. After a fraudulent wire, speed matters: call your bank right away and file a report at ic3.gov, which can help the FBI's Recovery Asset Team try to freeze the funds.

Cyber insurance

Many insurers now ask the same questions corporate customers do before renewing a policy. Having MFA, endpoint protection and protected backups in place makes the application simpler and the answers true, which matters if you ever file a claim.

Keeping it current

Security drifts. New staff arrive with old habits, vendors change and attackers try fresh tricks. Each month we review admin accounts, risky sign-ins and new forwarding rules. Each quarter we bring a short security summary to your review meeting and update whatever a customer or insurer is likely to ask about next.

Where to start

A security review covers your Microsoft 365 settings, sign-in history, mailbox rules, device protection, firewall and backups. You get a short report in plain English, ranked by risk, with the fixes we would make first.

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