Security & Disaster Recovery
Attackers don’t care whether you’re a Fortune 500 or a fifty-person distributor. Your defenses have to matter regardless. We design and operate the perimeter, endpoint, identity, and disaster-recovery capabilities that used to require an enterprise CISO team — at price points SMB and midmarket clients can actually afford.
Why Networks One
The security threat landscape doesn’t scale with revenue. Ransomware crews, credential-stuffing bots, phishing operators, and supply-chain attackers all target midmarket and SMB companies precisely because they know the defensive budgets are smaller. And when an incident hits, the fallout — downtime, lost data, notification obligations, insurance claims — is measured on the enterprise scale regardless.
What’s changed over the past decade is that the same platforms Fortune 500 companies use — Microsoft Defender for Business, Fortinet Security Fabric, CrowdStrike Falcon, Azure Sentinel, Veeam replication — are now available at price points that fit a midmarket budget. What’s missing is the operational expertise to design, deploy, and run them properly.
That’s where we come in. We’ve been designing and operating security and disaster-recovery capabilities for enterprises since 1998 — and we deliver the same rigor to SMB and midmarket clients on a fractional or managed basis.
What We Do
Security isn’t one product — it’s a layered discipline. We cover the whole stack, from perimeter to identity to backup, under one accountable partner.
Next-gen firewalls, network segmentation, IDS/IPS, web filtering, SSL inspection, VPN concentrators, and zero-trust network access. The layered defenses that keep the outside from becoming the inside.
Modern endpoint protection with behavioral EDR: workstations, laptops, servers, and mobile. Managed policies, threat hunting, isolation-on-detection, and continuous configuration hardening.
Entra ID (Azure AD), MFA everywhere, conditional access, privileged access management, SSO federation, and password-less rollout. Because 80% of breaches start with a stolen credential.
Quarterly vulnerability scanning, patch cadence review, external penetration testing, internal red-team exercises, and phishing simulation. Findings tracked to closure with named owners and dates.
Immutable backups, off-site replication, cloud DR targets, RPO/RTO design, and tested tabletop exercises. Backups you’ve actually restored from — not just backups that seem to be running.
Written incident-response runbooks, on-call escalation matrix, breach-notification templates, cyber-insurance coordination, and business-continuity planning. So the first hour of an incident isn’t improvised.
Compliance Frameworks
You don’t buy security to check a compliance box — but your compliance obligations are how you prove to customers, regulators, and insurers that your security is real. We design to the framework you actually have to answer to.
Scope reduction, segmentation, encryption, key management, quarterly ASV scans, and SAQ / RoC support for merchants and service providers.
PHI segmentation, access-control policy, encryption of data at rest and in flight, business-associate agreements, and OCR-ready audit evidence.
Community-bank and credit-union security programs, SOX ITGC controls, third-party risk management, and audit-committee reporting.
Type II readiness, control mapping, evidence collection automation, and audit-firm coordination for SaaS providers and enterprise vendors.
DoD supply-chain compliance for Level 1 (FCI) and Level 2 (CUI) contractors — scoping, boundary design, and pre-C3PAO readiness.
Renewals are getting harder. We help you pass the questionnaire, close the required control gaps, and demonstrate the posture your carrier now demands.
Platforms & Tools
We recommend the tool that fits your stack, budget, and existing skills — not the one with the biggest MDF budget.
The Enterprise-to-SMB Advantage
A backup you’ve never restored from is a lottery ticket, not a recovery plan. Enterprise IT knows this; midmarket IT rarely has the time to prove it. We do both — and we make it a scheduled program.
Tested. Documented. Proven.
The typical SMB has: a backup product it bought, a restore point it hopes is recent, and a story it tells the insurance company. When ransomware hits, half of those companies discover the backups were incomplete, the retention was too short, or nobody knew the restore procedure.
We build the immutable, off-site, tested DR programs that enterprise IT has always run — then we scale them down to fit a midmarket budget. Every recovery target gets a documented runbook, and every quarter we exercise one of them so nobody discovers the gaps under fire.
How We Engage
Every security engagement starts with an honest posture assessment against a real framework — not a scan report from a channel partner.
Written posture assessment against NIST CSF or CIS Controls, mapped to your applicable compliance framework. Delivered with a rated finding list and a proposed remediation roadmap.
Sequence findings by risk-reduction value vs. effort — and against your compliance calendar. The board-ready roadmap that answers “what do we do first, and why?”
Deploy the missing controls, harden the misconfigured ones, retire the ones that no longer make sense. Delivered as fixed-fee sprints so leadership sees progress every 60–90 days.
Managed security services: 24×7 monitoring, quarterly scans, monthly reporting, tested DR, and incident-response on-call. So security is a program, not an annual scramble.
Why NOCG for Security & DR
27 years of enterprise operations discipline, applied at midmarket scale — and priced for it.
Related Practices
Network Infrastructure
Segmentation, ZTNA, and firewall placement are network problems as much as security ones. When the network team and the security team are the same team, the design is coherent.
Explore Network Infrastructure →24/7 Monitoring & Remediation
A SIEM without a NOC is a shelfware alert generator. Our monitoring practice pairs directly with the security stack so alerts get triaged, not filed.
Explore 24/7 Monitoring →Ready to Start?
A written posture assessment against NIST CSF or CIS Controls, mapped to your compliance framework, with a prioritized remediation plan you can take to your board. Fixed-fee, delivered in 3–4 weeks.