Cybersecurity and IT Support for Billings, MT
Plenty of Yellowstone County companies still run a 2016 domain controller in a closet behind the break room, with the admin password taped inside the door. We fix that from an office in downtown Billings.
Our office is on the fourth floor of TransWestern I, across from the First Interstate tower.
Same day onsite for contract clients across the Yellowstone Valley.
Incident response by GIAC certified responders.
“Seamless, with absolutely no down time in the transition.”
10 min
Median first response
for security issues, measured in our own system over the last 90 days
100+
Incidents supported
by our team
7,500+
Devices monitored
under current contracts
On Google and Birdeye
Same day onsite across the Yellowstone Valley.
We drive it. A Billings engineer in a truck beats a remote session from three time zones away when the problem is a switch nobody can find.
Same day for contract clients
Billings
Lockwood
Laurel
Shepherd
Huntley
Worden
Ballantine
Park City
Broadview
Scheduled service
Columbus
Joliet
Red Lodge
Roundup
Hardin
Big Timber
Absarokee
Our office: 404 N 31st St, #414, on the fourth floor of TransWestern I.
Most IT providers ask for your trust. We put ours in writing.
Two commitments for certified clients, neither is insurance.
We do the work
The Big Sky Guarantee
For certified clients on our Professional package or co-managed services, The Big Sky Guarantee is our commitment to do the response work ourselves, at no additional cost, within defined service limits.
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We back it in writing
The Big Sky Service Warranty
A separate written warranty on our managed services, with eligible payments made directly to your organization, up to $500,000 per covered incident, depending on your plan.
1 hour
Ransomware
1 hour
Business email compromise
4 hours
Backup recovery failure
Response commitments for certified clients. Eligibility requirements, service limits and exclusions apply. Full terms are provided for your review before you sign. Neither is an insurance policy and the warranty does not replace cyber insurance, which we recommend having in place.
How the guarantee and warranty workMontana's privacy law changed on October 1, 2025.
Here's what's different, and why an answer you had last year may have expired.
Before October 1, 2025
Since October 1, 2025
Who is in scope
50,000 Montana consumers
25,000 Montana consumers
GLBA
Financial institutions exempt as entities
Only GLBA regulated data is exempt. Chartered banks and credit unions keep their own exemption.
Warning before penalties
60 day cure period
No cure period
Penalties
Up to $7,500 per violation
Up to $7,500 per violation, with no warning first. The Attorney General can also compel your data protection assessments.
A half hour call tells you whether any of this is your problem.
Plenty of Billings businesses are still out of scope, and we'll tell you if you're one of them. If you're not, the first thing we build is the data protection assessment the Attorney General can compel.
This isn't legal advice. Confirm your position with your counsel.
Our recent work.
Accounting discrepancies that needed evidence preserved
Their attorney brought us in to preserve the mailboxes and establish which invoices and emails were genuine and which were sent fraudulently.
Outcome
Documented chain of custody, ready if the matter goes further.
Caught at 2 a.m., before anything was encrypted
XDR alerted at 2 a.m. and we were in the environment before staff arrived. The attackers had footholds and were scanning the network and testing accounts.
Outcome
Locked out before encryption. No data encrypted or accessed. Hardened within two weeks.
The previous provider had lost their backups
Our first documentation pass found critical client data that had been backed up but wasn't recoverable. Nobody had ever tried a restore.
Outcome
Backups rebuilt and restores tested.
What we get called about in Yellowstone County.
Six kinds of organization, and two specialist services other IT providers bring us in for.
Downtime
Manufacturing and fabrication
Managed IT and monitoring where downtime stops production, and an honest assessment of equipment that can't be patched.
Fully managed IT
HIPAA
Healthcare
HIPAA security risk analysis, access review, and documentation a clinic can hand to an auditor without a scramble.
IT for healthcare practices
SB 297 and GLBA
Banking and credit unions
Post SB 297 gap assessment, vendor risk review on your core processor, and GLBA Safeguards documentation for exams.
IT for credit unions and community banks
Payment fraud
Contractors
Email and account security for the systems money moves through, and forensics when a payment request isn't genuine.
Email and payment fraud protection
No IT staff
Small business
Managed IT for ten to fifty people with no IT staff, and straight answers for the cyber insurance renewal.
Small business IT support
Board ready
Schools and public sector
Around the clock monitoring and incident response, documented for a board, a grant administrator or a records request.
IT for towns, counties and public bodies
Specialist service
Digital forensics
Evidence preservation and analysis of email, file and account activity, reported for the attorney or investigation that asked.
Incident response and forensics
Specialist service
Penetration testing
Manual testing by certified engineers, with a report and retest sized to the grant condition or federal requirement asking for it.
Penetration testing in BillingsQuestions Billings businesses ask us.
Is this a real office or a service area page?
Real office. Fourth floor of TransWestern I, 404 N 31st St, #414. You're welcome to come up.
How fast can you get to Laurel or Lockwood?
Same day for contract clients. Both are inside twenty minutes of our door.
Does the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act apply to my business?
Possibly, and more likely than it was a year ago. The threshold dropped to 25,000 Montana consumers on October 1, 2025. If you run a financial business that assumed GLBA exempted you entirely, that exemption now covers only GLBA regulated data, although chartered banks and credit unions have their own exemption. We'll tell you in a half hour call whether you're in scope. This isn't legal advice, so confirm the answer with your counsel.
We already have an IT company in Billings. Do we need you too?
Often yes, and it isn't a criticism of them. Managed IT keeps things running. Security assumes someone is already inside. Many Billings organizations keep their existing IT provider and bring us in for assessment, compliance and incident response. We'll work alongside them.
What does this cost for a 25 person Billings company?
Managed IT is priced per device, plus a per user charge. For 25 people on 25 computers:
Essentials: $75 per device, so $1,875 a month for the devices.
Professional: $95 per device, so $2,375 a month for the devices.
Quoted on the first call: servers, network equipment and the per user charge.
Every price we charge is on our pricing page.
Tell us what you run and where your sites are.
The assessment is free. Thirty to forty-five minutes onsite, at a time you pick, and the findings are yours either way.
Billings office: 404 N 31st St, #414, Billings, MT 59101.
“James and his team at Big Sky Cybersecurity are an integral part of my business' team as they help to protect my business from various cyber threats.”
Chad M., accounting firm owner
Big Sky Cybersecurity · 404 N 31st St, #414, Billings, MT 59101 · 406-924-3731. Serving Billings, Lockwood, Laurel, Shepherd, Huntley, Worden, Ballantine, Park City, and Broadview, plus scheduled service to Columbus, Joliet, Red Lodge, Roundup, Hardin, Big Timber, and Absarokee.