IT & Cybersecurity Consulting
We assess technology and security risks, rank the required remediation work, and provide implementation options, responsibilities, budgets, and decision points.
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Security work stalls when nobody can rank what to fix first
Most exposure comes from ordinary gaps: shared logins, an unpatched plugin, backups nobody has restored from, an ex-employee whose access still works. The gaps are individually small and collectively expensive, and they persist because there is no ranked list telling you which one to close on Monday.
An assessment produces that list. Every finding carries a likelihood, an impact, an effort estimate, and its dependencies, so you can act on the top three this month and schedule the rest. You choose whether Firelinkx implements the remediation, your existing IT provider does, or your team handles it internally.
Nobody owns security, so passwords, access, and backups have been left to whoever set them up.
A client or tender has asked how you protect data and you have no documented answer.
You hold customer or payment information online without knowing exactly what is stored where.
Staff receive convincing phishing messages and fake invoices and have never been trained on them.
You do not know what would happen if a laptop were stolen or a system were locked by ransomware.
What's Included
What an assessment hands over
Every engagement ends in documents you keep and can act on without us, written in plain language with the vendor jargon left out.
Ranked findings register
Each weakness recorded with what is exposed, how it could be exploited, what it would cost you, the effort to close it, and anything that must happen first.
Remediation plan with owners
The findings sequenced into work you can start now, work that needs a budget decision, and work that depends on a system change, with a named owner against each item.
Access and account inventory
Who can reach which systems, which logins are shared, which accounts belong to people who have left, and where multi-factor authentication is missing.
Backup and recovery position
What is backed up, how often, where the copies live, how long a restore takes, and which systems currently have no tested recovery path at all.
Policy set you can actually use
Short written policies for passwords, access, devices, and data handling, sized for your team, not copied from an enterprise template.
Evidence for client questionnaires
The documented position you can hand to a client or tender that asks how you manage data, access, and incidents.
When businesses ask for this work
Consulting is usually triggered by an event. These are the triggers we see most.
A tender asks a security question
A larger client or a government tender includes a questionnaire on data handling, access control, and incident response, and you need a documented, honest answer before the deadline.
Something already went wrong
An account was compromised, an invoice was paid to a fraudulent bank detail, or a site was defaced. The assessment establishes what was reached, what else is exposed, and what closes the route.
A key person is leaving
One person holds the passwords, the hosting logins, and the domain registrar. The work inventories that access, transfers it, and documents it before the handover date.
Moving customer data online
Online payments, a customer portal, or cloud accounting changes what you hold and what you owe the people who gave it to you. The assessment belongs before that launch.
Deciding what to replace
Ageing servers, unsupported software, and overlapping subscriptions. The roadmap says what to upgrade, what to retire, what to consolidate, and what to leave alone.
Training a team that has never had any
Practical awareness sessions on phishing, fake invoices, and payment fraud, built from the examples that circulate here.
Industries and teams we can support
The questions that set the size of an engagement
Consulting is scoped to what you need, so these answers determine both the depth of the review and its price.
What would hurt most if it were lost
Customer records, financial data, designs, or the ability to trade at all. Risk is specific to what you hold, so the review starts there and works outward.
How many systems are in scope
Email, accounting, the website, point of sale, file storage, and any custom application. Each one adds accounts, access paths, and backup questions.
Who administers what today
An internal person, an external provider, a former contractor, or nobody. This determines how much of the work is discovery and how much is remediation.
What evidence you need to produce
An internal action list is a smaller engagement than a documented position you can hand to a client, an insurer, or a tender committee.
Whether staff training is included
Awareness sessions are priced per session and sized by headcount, and can run alongside the assessment or after the findings are known.
Who implements the fixes
You can act on the findings yourself, use your existing IT provider, or have Firelinkx carry out the remediation. The assessment is useful in all three cases.
Our Process
Discovery Session
Understand your current stack, pain points, and objectives.
Assessment
Thorough review of systems, security posture, and processes.
Roadmap
Prioritized recommendations with clear timelines and budgets.
Implementation Support
Hands-on guidance executing the plan.
Review & Adapt
Quarterly reviews to adjust the roadmap as your business evolves.
What affects the cost of a consulting engagement
This service is not sold in fixed tiers. A defined assessment is quoted as a fixed-scope engagement once the systems in scope are known, training is priced per session, and continuing advisory work runs as a retainer.
Most businesses start with the assessment, act on the findings at their own pace, and come back for the next piece. Remediation and implementation are quoted separately once the findings exist, because pricing that work before the review would be a guess.
See This Service in Action
Guyana Lite and Metro Office & Computer Supplies - Retail and Distribution
Moving 138 GB of business email off shared hosting without losing a message
Two businesses were running years of operational email on shared web hosting, where mail competed with websites for the same resources and deliverability was quietly degrading.
The mail migration case study shows the assessment habit applied to one system: fifteen mailboxes worth nothing were found before the move, missing sender authentication was fixed as part of it, and parity was proven mailbox by mailbox.
Questions buyers usually ask
My business is small. Are we really a target?
Most attacks are automated and hit whoever is exposed, so being small does not keep you out of scope. It usually makes you more reachable, because there is rarely anyone watching. The upside is that the controls that stop the common cases are cheap and quick to put in place.
What does a security assessment actually involve?
We review your public-facing systems, your accounts and how access is managed, your website, your backup and recovery position, and your team's everyday practices. You receive a ranked, plain-language findings register with next steps against each item.
Do you sell security software or hardware?
No. We are vendor-neutral and do not resell products, so the recommendation is whatever suits your situation. Where a tool genuinely helps we will name it and help you compare options, but we have no commercial interest in which one you pick.
Can you train our staff?
Yes, and it is one of the highest-value things you can do. Most incidents begin with someone clicking, replying, or paying when they should not have. Sessions are practical and use the phishing and fake-invoice patterns that circulate here.
We collect customer information online. What is our responsibility?
You have a duty to handle it carefully, and clients and partners increasingly expect evidence that you do. We help you establish what you are holding, reduce what you do not need, secure what remains, and write down what happens on the day something goes wrong.
A client questionnaire is asking about our security. Can you help us answer it?
Yes. We work through the questionnaire with you, establish which controls you already have, put the missing basics in place, and document the position so you can answer credibly and not lose work over a box you could not tick.
Do we have to use you for the fixes?
No. The findings register and remediation plan are written so your own team or your existing IT provider can act on them. Many businesses use us for the assessment and handle the work internally, which is a legitimate outcome.
How long does an assessment take?
For a typical small or mid-sized business with a handful of systems, the review runs over one to two weeks including the sessions with your team, with the findings register delivered at the end. Larger estates and multi-location businesses are scoped after a short discovery call.
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