Cybersecurity

Many IT service providers use scary statistics to upsell clients on expensive, overly-complicated security services.

We take a different approach.

Our data-backed Core Four cybersecurity controls protect your business by leveraging the simplest, most effective tools to reduce your cyber risk:

  1. Multi-Factor Authentication enforcement on user accounts
  2. Strict control of Administrative Privileges on all workstations
  3. Daily Security Patching for OS vulnerabilities & updates
  4. Comprehensive Employee Awareness Training

If your IT provider isn’t fully delivering on those four basic controls, yet they’re billing you for XDR, NGAV, SIEM, SOC, or some other alphabet soup of cybersecurity services, they are failing you.

Core Four

Simple, Practical Cybersecurity

1

Multi-Factor Authentication

We enforce MFA on all user accounts within your business email system (e.g., Microsoft 365, Google Workspaces) as well as Line of Business (LoB) applications and other critical systems.

Supporting Data

  • It’s likely that at least 70% of your employees are re-using passwords across multiple accounts. (SOURCE)
  • Those re-used passwords are likely weak and have probably already been compromised. (SOURCE)

Bottom Line: Your employees’ passwords are ineffective and insecure. MFA provides another layer of security to protect employee accounts.

2

Local Admin Restriction

Our clients’ employees (including management) are not allowed local admin privileges on their workstations. This is in accordance with the industry-standard Principle of Least Privilege.

Supporting Data

  • Industry experts like Gartner emphasize the importance of the Principle of Least Privilege. (SOURCE)
  • This single control can mitigate 94% of workstation vulnerabilities. (SOURCE)

Bottom Line: Frankly, this control introduces friction for your staff, and increases ticket volume for ours, but it’s absolutely necessary for the security of your business.

3

Daily Security Patching

Many IT providers patch client systems every 14 days at best, in sync with vendor patching schedules. We automate daily workstation patching, to catch critical zero-day vulnerabilities.

Supporting Data

  • According to Gartner, 90% of exploits occur after the victim was aware of the vulnerability. (SOURCE)
  • In other words, the issue isn’t discovering vulnerabilities in your systems, it’s applying the known fixes in time.

Bottom Line: Vendors like Microsoft are publishing patches to vulnerabilities as soon as they’re discovered, but it’s useless if your IT provider isn’t applying those patches in a timely manner.

4

Employee Training

Our comprehensive annual training program will arm your employees with the information they need to recognize and avoid falling victim to cyber threats like phishing.

Supporting Data

  • According to Gartner, 85% of data breaches involve human error. (SOURCE)
  • Without proper training, your employees are significantly more likely to engage with phishing emails. (SOURCE)

Bottom Line: No amount of technical controls can stop every threat. Your employees are the last line of defense for your business. Don’t let them also be the weakest.

No Upselling

At PulseLink, security isn't a line item on an invoice, it's engrained in everything we do.

Academic Approach

Our services were developed by SIUE cybersecurity program faculty member (and PulseLink owner) Wade Berner, and are backed by industry research and Wade's 15-year experience working cybersecurity in healthcare and national defense.

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