Cybersecurity for Kansas businesses
CK Technologies provides cybersecurity services for businesses in Hays and across Central and Western Kansas: email filtering, multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, patching, tested backups, and staff training.
What’s included
- Email filtering and phishing protection
- Multi-factor authentication on email and remote access
- Endpoint protection on every computer and server
- Patching and updates on a schedule
- Backups that are monitored and tested
- Security awareness training for staff (optional add-on)
- Firewall management and secure Wi-Fi
- Documentation for cyber insurance and auditors
Most attacks on small businesses start with one email. We make sure that one click doesn’t become a lost week.
Ransomware, fake invoices, stolen passwords, and email takeovers hit clinics, banks, county offices, and shops across Central and Western Kansas every month. The businesses that come through them have the same few things in place: filtered email, multi-factor authentication, patched systems, and backups that have been tested. We put those in place and keep them working.
How Kansas businesses actually get hit
It’s rarely a hacker picking your business. It’s an automated attack that works on whoever clicks. These are the four we see most.
Phishing and fake invoices
An email that looks like it’s from a vendor, the bank, or the boss, asking someone to pay an invoice or enter a password. One click and the attacker is in.
Email account takeover
A stolen password on an email account. The attacker reads mail for weeks, then sends payment-change requests to your customers from your real address.
Ransomware
Files encrypted across every computer and the server, with a ransom demand. Without tested backups, the choice is pay or rebuild from nothing.
Unpatched software
A known weakness in software nobody updated. Attackers scan for these automatically. It’s the easiest way in, and the easiest to close.
What we put in place
Layers, so that when one fails, the next one catches it. The core protections are part of managed IT; training and advanced monitoring can be added, and everything is available on its own.
Email security
Filtering that stops phishing, spoofing, and malicious attachments before they reach an inbox, plus protections that make your domain harder to impersonate.
Multi-factor authentication
A second check on email, remote access, and cloud apps, so a stolen password alone doesn’t get anyone in.
Endpoint protection
Modern protection on every computer and server that watches for suspicious behavior, not just known viruses, and alerts us.
Patching and updates
Operating systems and software updated on a schedule and verified, closing the holes attackers scan for.
Backups you can recover from
Monitored daily, kept where ransomware can’t reach them, and tested so you know a restore works before you need one.
Staff training
Short training and simulated phishing emails on a schedule, so the person who gets the fake invoice knows what to do.
Firewall and network
Business-grade firewalls, secure Wi-Fi for staff and guests, and separation for equipment that can’t be patched.
Documentation
Written records of what’s in place, for cyber insurance applications, HIPAA, FFIEC, and IRS requirements.
Cyber insurance is asking for this now
Most Kansas businesses first hear about these controls when their insurance renewal arrives with a questionnaire. Insurers want to see MFA, endpoint detection and response, offline or immutable backups, and patching before they’ll write or renew a policy, and a false answer can void a claim.
We put the controls in place and give you the documentation to answer honestly. Read more: what cyber insurance requires from a small business.
Who this matters most for
- Healthcare and dental: HIPAA technical safeguards
- Banks and credit unions: GLBA and FFIEC expectations
- Law and accounting firms: the IRS written information security plan
- County and city offices: public records and uptime
- Manufacturers: production equipment that can’t be patched
Free download: cyber insurance readiness checklist
The nine security controls insurers ask small businesses about, as a two-page checklist you can fill in before your next renewal.
The tools behind it
We use products from these partners in our clients’ offices every day: SentinelOne for endpoint detection and response, Avanan by Check Point for email security, N-able for monitoring and management, and SonicWall, Cisco Meraki, and UniFi for firewalls and networks.
SentinelOneEndpoint detection and response- N-ableN-ableMonitoring and management
Avanan by Check PointEmail security
SonicWallFirewalls
Cisco MerakiNetworking and Wi-Fi
UniFiNetworking and Wi-Fi
DellComputers and servers
Start with the free audit
We review your email security, backups, MFA coverage, patching, and firewall, then give you a written report with the biggest risks first. No cost, no obligation, and you keep the report whether or not you hire us.
Cybersecurity questions
Still have a question? Call us and a technician will answer.
Do small businesses in Kansas really get attacked?
Yes, and more often than large companies, because attackers know small businesses have fewer defenses. Most attacks aren’t targeted at you personally; they’re automated, sent to thousands of businesses at once, and they work on whoever clicks. A clinic in Hays and a hospital in Kansas City get the same phishing email.
What does cybersecurity cost?
For managed IT clients, the core protections (email filtering, endpoint protection, patching, and MFA) are included in the flat monthly rate, and backups are covered when your plan includes them. Add-ons like security awareness training and advanced monitoring are quoted per user. Call for a quote, or start with the free audit.
We have antivirus. Isn’t that enough?
Antivirus catches known viruses. Most attacks today are a stolen password, a convincing fake invoice, or a weakness in software nobody updated. Stopping those takes multi-factor authentication, email filtering, patching, and backups you’ve tested, not just antivirus.
Can you help with cyber insurance requirements?
Yes. Insurers now ask for specifics before they’ll write or renew a policy: MFA on email and remote access, endpoint detection and response, offline or immutable backups, and a patching schedule. We put those controls in place and give you the documentation to answer the application honestly.
What happens if we get hit by ransomware?
Call us first, before paying anyone or turning anything off. We isolate the affected systems, confirm what was touched, and restore from backup. If you’re a managed client, we already have the backups and the plan. If you’re not, call anyway; we’ll help.
Do you train our staff?
Yes. Short security awareness training and simulated phishing emails, run on a schedule, so your staff learn to spot a fake invoice before it costs you. This is also one of the things cyber insurers ask about.
Find your gaps before attackers do
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