A customer asked for proof
Answer a security questionnaire or contract requirement without overstating what is in place.
Cybersecurity for small businesses
Security should protect your business. Not slow it down.
Practical help with the security problems in front of you—customer questionnaires, cyber-insurance renewals, everyday risks, and AI questions—built around the way your team actually works.
Start with a question. No technical diagnosis required.
In-person support for small businesses in South Pasadena, Pasadena, East Los Angeles, Alhambra, and nearby areas—so you’re working with a local professional, not a national firm or a support queue.
Why owners reach out
Start with the pressure you’re already feeling.
You do not need a grand security transformation. You need a clear, honest answer to the problem, requirement, or uncertainty directly in front of you.
Insurance renewal is coming
Understand what the application is really asking before anyone signs off on it.
The business has changed
New people, software, locations, or remote work have outgrown the old setup.
Something felt wrong
A suspicious login, email, or device raised a question that should not be ignored.
The security basics
Do the fundamentals hold together?
Five basics do most of the protective work for a business your size. Read through them and notice which ones you can’t honestly say yes to—that’s where a conversation starts. This isn’t a test, a risk rating, or a certification.
Why no percentage?
A neat score can hide what matters: which data you hold, how your team works, and whether the safeguards have actually been tested.
0 of 5 basics in place
Not sure where you stand?
That’s normal—most owners aren’t sure. Start with multi-factor authentication and a backup you have successfully restored, and bring the rest to a conversation.
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Your message comes straight to the expert—describe what’s in front of you, in your own words.
Where we help
Useful security work starts with context.
No oversized enterprise playbook. The work begins with your business problem and works backward to the safeguards, evidence, and ownership it actually needs.
01 / The starting pointSee the whole picture
Risk and readiness review
A look at how your business actually operates, where the meaningful gaps are, and a short, prioritized plan—not a generic report.
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Accounts, devices, and email
Strengthen sign-ins, work devices, backups, updates, and phishing safeguards.
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Office and remote work
Review Wi-Fi, guest access, remote connections, and administrative privileges.
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Client and insurance requests
Answer accurately, organize evidence, and identify gaps before making commitments.
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Safe AI and automation
Set clear boundaries for customer data, confidential work, approved tools, and oversight.
How the work moves
From uncertainty to a manageable plan.
Good consulting should create decisions and ownership—not a shelf full of paperwork. The scope stays tied to the outcome the business needs.
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Understand
Map the people, systems, information, and obligations involved. Confirm what already works before changing it.
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Prioritize
Sort findings by business impact and effort. Focus on the few improvements that reduce meaningful risk.
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Strengthen
Put the plan into practice with clear owners, realistic maintenance, and evidence that can be explained.
AI at work
Useful tools need clear boundaries.
The first AI security question is not which product to buy. It is what employees may share, which tools are approved, and where a person remains accountable.
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Decide what must stay private
Set simple rules for customer information, contracts, credentials, financial data, and confidential work.
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Review tools before adoption
Understand retention, account controls, integrations, and who can see submitted information.
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Keep a person responsible
Use automation to assist decisions, not erase ownership of sensitive or customer-facing work.
Common questions
Before we start.
No. Work can begin with the owner or whoever currently handles technology decisions. If you already use an IT provider, SP Cyber Security can work alongside them and keep responsibilities clear.
Usually, no. The first step is to understand what you already use and make the most important improvements. A replacement should have a clear business reason.
Yes. The useful approach is to answer accurately, gather evidence for controls that exist, and identify gaps before making commitments. SP Cyber Security does not provide legal advice or guarantee approval.
The first step is just a conversation. You clarify the immediate concern and whether it is a good fit. If more work makes sense, the next step defines the scope, expected outcome, responsibilities, and cost—before any work begins.
Who you’d work with
The experience behind the work.
SP Cyber Security is the practice of a career security leader — more than a decade leading security programs inside large technology, media, and financial-services companies: building and running teams, leading incident readiness, and answering the hard questions customers, insurers, and regulators ask. SP Cyber Security brings that experience to small businesses, in plain language and at a size that fits the problem in front of you.
- 13+ years in security leadership, including running a security consulting practice
- Before that, 5 years running technology operations at an algorithmic trading firm — the operations side security has to fit into
- Master’s degree in information technology
- Based in South Pasadena — you work directly with the expert, from first email to final deliverable
Start with a direct conversation
Bring the question that keeps getting pushed down the list.
You do not need to diagnose the problem first. Describe what changed, what you are worried about, or what a customer or insurer has asked you to provide.
Based in South Pasadena, serving Pasadena, East Los Angeles, Alhambra, and nearby communities.
Send a message
Use the form—your message comes straight to the expert you’ll work with.
Prefer your own email? Write to eli@spcybersecurity.com.
First step is a conversation. Scope and cost are defined before any work begins.