Cybersecurity in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Cybersecurity for Myrtle Beach businesses that don't have an IT department.

Most of the Grand Strand's businesses have a website somebody built once, a domain in an account nobody checks, and email anyone could forge. We watch all three from the outside every five minutes, keep the protections on, test the way an attacker would when you ask us to in writing, and pick up the phone the same day when something breaks. Built in Myrtle Beach by the engineers who run VYVE and Cue.

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What we do

Watched, protected, and tested.

Monitoring around the clock

Your site, domain and certificate probed every five minutes from our server, all day and all night: up, fast, serving what it should, DNS where it belongs, email records unchanged. A new finding pages a person; a cleared one sends one more note.

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Hosting with the protections on

HTTPS enforced, framing by other sites blocked, content types locked, a content security policy and a referrer policy on every page. The free check on this page shows which of those your current site is missing.

Domain protection

Expiry and auto-renew watched, an alert when a setting changes, registrar locks checked, and the domain in your own account, not a former web designer's. From $29 a month per domain.

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Email that can't be forged as you

SPF, DKIM and DMARC set and enforced, so a scammer can't send an invoice from your address and your real mail stops landing in spam. Re-checked every month.

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A monthly look from the outside

Exposed configuration files, public login names, store data feeds handing out prices, a form saving passwords as text. Found from the outside, fixed, and written up in plain English.

Penetration testing, with your written OK

A scope you sign first: which systems, which dates, what is off limits. Then we try to get in the way an attacker would, without breaking anything, and hand you a report with each finding, how bad it is, and the fix. Retest included.

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Same-day incident response

Hacked site, hijacked domain, taken-over mailbox. We pick up the same day, contain it, clean it, restore it, lock it down, and give you a written report. From $1,500, or $199 a month on retainer.

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Run to the SOC 2 standard

We run our own company to the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria and collect the evidence every week: two-step sign-in, least privilege, tamper-evident records, a written incident plan. Your site rides on the same practices.

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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, penetration testing, incident response, domain recovery, and every site we run, checked live.

Where we work.

Myrtle Beach is home. The pages below are for the places we are in every week.

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 ↗

housecallautomechanics.com

Housecall Auto Mechanics website on a desktop

Event company website + rentalsLive

Pierpoint Events

An AVL, DJ, photobooth and rentals company's site, rebuilt from scratch: rentals you can book and pay for online, a page for every venue they've worked, and readable in two seconds on one bar of signal.

Designed and built from scratch. No page builder and no template.

Rentals you can book and pay for. 43 rentals with written descriptions and day rates, checkout by card or Cash App, and South Carolina and county sales tax worked out from the address, all through the payment account the business already had.

A page for every room they've played. 41 venue pages, each linking the venue's own site, six service-area pages and nine planning guides, written around what people search before they book.

Case study →Visit pierpointevents.com ↗

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What we keep finding

Not hacks. Sites nobody was watching.

A car dealer taking credit applications, Social Security numbers included, on a page with no privacy policy. A machine shop whose web address had been redirecting customers to a gambling site for six weeks. A sign company whose only contact form saved customers' passwords as plain text. A law firm whose home page described a different law firm in another state. All within a few miles of here, all in the last month.

None of them were targeted. They were built once, by someone who moved on, and left running. A plugin fell behind, a domain renewed into the wrong account, a form tool changed its defaults. Nobody was looking from the outside, so nobody saw it.

That is the job. We look from the outside every five minutes, keep the protections on, and when something changes you hear it from us before you hear it from a customer. Questions: 843-331-6339, and you get the engineer.

Questions

Straight answers.

What does cybersecurity cost for a small business?

Domain protection is $29 a month per domain. The incident retainer is $199 a month. The 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. Incident response without a retainer starts at $1,500.

Can you protect a site you didn't build?

Domain protection and the incident retainer, yes, for any site. The full care plan needs the site on our hosting, because the protections are in how it is served. For a WordPress, Wix or Squarespace site the path is the free check, then a fix or a rebuild, then Protect.

How is this different from an IT company?

An IT company manages your computers and your office network. We cover the part that faces the internet: the website, the domain, the email records, the forms that take customer data. Most small businesses need both, and we work alongside IT providers without stepping on them.

What is penetration testing, and do I need it?

A controlled attempt to break into your systems, by us, with your written permission, to find what a real attacker would find first. Most small businesses don't need it monthly; a practice with client data, a store taking deposits, or anyone with a compliance question usually does once a year.

What happens if something is already hacked?

Call. We pick up the same day, contain it, clean it, restore from backup, lock it down, and write up exactly what happened and what changed. The incident response page describes every step.

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

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