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The clinic thought one public IP meant low risk. Vendors had left them exposed.

A rural Montana clinic believed one public IP meant low risk. Our manual pentest found two vendors had left equipment exposed, putting grant funding at risk.

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The previous IT called it resolved. The attacker still had access.

A Montana organization lost about $70,000 to wire fraud. We were brought in 80 days later and found the attacker had never actually been locked out.

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The system didn't lock files. Architects kept overwriting each other's designs.

A hybrid Montana architecture firm kept losing design work to file conflicts and had no visibility into offshored IT. We moved them to one cloud suite with local support.

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2,000 users, a device for every student, and a network that trusted whatever connected.

A Montana K12 district grew from a few hundred devices to one per student. We implemented Zero Trust so connecting to the network no longer meant access to everything.

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A new director inherited the systems. Nobody had written down how they worked.

A Montana nonprofit's new director inherited unclear technology and policies. Our audit found the HIPAA and privacy gaps, then we rebuilt policy and trained staff.

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An admin left the company. Nobody could say what they could still access.

A Montana small business lost an employee who held admin access to finance, HR, banking, and cloud tools. We found every access point and locked it down.

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The school needed a SIEM. It couldn't afford licenses or the staff.

A Montana K12 school needed network visibility without SIEM licensing fees or new analysts. We deployed an open source SIEM its own IT team could run.

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