Cybersecurity in Columbia, South Carolina

Cybersecurity for Columbia, for the firms around the State House.

Columbia is the capital: state agencies, the University of South Carolina, Fort Jackson, the hospital systems, and the law firms, engineers, contractors and accountants who work with all of them. Plenty of firms in town sell security to the agencies and the hospitals. We build for the twenty-person practice down the street from them: monitoring around the clock, a domain and email nobody can borrow, and penetration testing when you authorize it in writing.

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What we do for Columbia businesses

Watched, protected, and tested.

Monitoring around the clock

Your site, domain and certificate probed every five minutes from our server: up, fast, serving what it should, DNS where it belongs. Alerts page a person.

Hosting with the protections on

HTTPS enforced, framing by other sites blocked, content types locked, a content security policy on every page. The headers most local sites are missing, on by default.

See every site we run, checked live →

Domain and email protection

Expiry and settings watched, registrar locks checked, the domain in your own name. SPF, DKIM and DMARC set and enforced, so nobody sends an invoice as you. From $29 a month per domain.

Email security →

A monthly look from the outside

What a stranger could reach: exposed files, public login names, store feeds that hand out prices, forged-mail risk. Fixed, not filed, with a plain-English note.

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Penetration testing, with your written OK

Scope signed first, then we try to break in the way an attacker would, and hand you a report with each finding and its fix, then a retest.

How pen testing works →

Same-day incident response

Hacked site, hijacked domain, taken-over email: we pick up the same day, contain, clean, restore and write it up. Protect clients go first.

Incident response →

Free website check

Is your website costing you calls?

Type your address. Results in seconds, in plain English, then a free full audit from Nikita.

Part of our cybersecurity practice: cybersecurity for small business, monitoring and protection, email security, security assessments, penetration testing, hacked website repair, domain recovery, and every site we run, checked live.

What we see in Columbia.

Firms that move money by email

Law firms, title companies and accountants send payment and wiring instructions by email, and a forged message from the firm's real address is the scam. We set DMARC to reject once every service that sends for you passes, and add the wire warning clients should see.

Vendor security questionnaires

Engineers and contractors who work with agencies or large clients get asked security questions on vendor forms more every year. We run our own company to the SOC 2 criteria and write down what we do, so the businesses we protect can answer those questions honestly.

Practices with patient and client data

Dental, therapy and physical therapy offices collect sensitive details through website forms. We make sure those forms send over a secure connection and keep entries behind a sign-in, and we document the setup for your own records.

Proof

Built and running. Go look.

Local business websiteLive

Housecall Auto Mechanics

A mobile mechanic's site, moved off Wix without losing a link and sitting at the top of Google's local results for mobile mechanic in Myrtle Beach.

A clean move off Wix. Nameservers moved, every email record copied exactly, the TLS certificate issued, and every old page address kept or redirected, so nothing Google had indexed broke.

Local SEO that does its job. LocalBusiness structured data, a clean sitemap, his existing Search Console verification carried over, and pages written around what people actually search for.

Built for a phone at the roadside. Call and text buttons that follow you down the page, plain prices, and a contact form that lands in his inbox.

Case study →Visit housecallautomechanics.com ↗

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Housecall Auto Mechanics website on a desktop

How it works

Start with the free check. Then we talk.

Type your address into the free check on this page. In a few seconds you see what a stranger sees: whether the protective headers are on, whether your email can be forged, whether a login name or a price list is public. That is the same probe our monitor runs on every site we protect.

Then a conversation, by phone or in person. If the site is one we can host, Protect starts at $249 a month with everything above. If it is on Wix, WordPress or Squarespace, we start with the fix that closes what the check found, and the rest follows. Domain protection and the incident retainer work for any site, whoever built it.

Questions before that: call 843-331-6339. You get the engineer, not a sales desk. The full cybersecurity page has the detail.

Questions

Straight answers.

Do you come to Columbia?

We're based in Myrtle Beach, a couple of hours east. We come over for discovery and for incident work when it helps. The monitoring, protection and most fixes happen from our side, and a first conversation is free.

Do you handle CMMC or government contract compliance?

No. CMMC and federal contract compliance need a specialist assessor. We handle what faces the internet, your website, domain, email records and forms, and document it so it fits whatever program your compliance lead runs.

What does it cost?

Domain protection is $29 a month per domain. The incident retainer is $199 a month. The full care plan, with hosting, monitoring, protection, backups and same-day changes, is $249 a month per site. Penetration testing is quoted per scope, in writing, before anything starts.

Is this cybersecurity, or just hosting?

It is the cybersecurity a business without an IT department actually needs: continuous monitoring, hardened hosting, domain and email protection, an outside look every month, incident response, and penetration testing on request. We tell you plainly when something is outside what we do.

Start a project

Tell us what you're building.

A website, a booking system, an app, or the thing you've been running out of a spreadsheet for three years. A few lines is plenty.

01The person who'll build it writes back

02A planning call, then a written plan with the price and the date

03A preview on your phone while it's being built

04Launch night handled: redirects, email, Google

843-331-6339

Not ready to talk yet? Run the free website check and see what Google sees.