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Testing ransomware readiness before an incident

A representative ransomware tabletop that tests authority, communications, identity recovery and restoration decisions before an incident.

Cybersecurity and infrastructure for professional services

Protect client information, support hybrid work, and reduce technology risk without slowing down your billable teams.

Cybersecurity and network consulting for financial services

Assess access, network controls, third-party exposure, and recovery plans around systems that handle financial data and transactions.

Cybersecurity and resilient infrastructure for healthcare

Strengthen access, networks, and recovery around sensitive health information and systems that staff need to deliver care.

Firewall policy review

Review firewall policy intent, effective access, ownership and observed use before making bounded cleanup or risk-reduction changes.

Managed IT services

Hands-on IT operations during Canadian business hours: patching, backup checks, account and device administration, and current documentation.

Microsoft 365 security and administration

Microsoft 365 security and administration for Canadian organizations: Entra ID, conditional access, mail security, sharing, Intune and licensing.

Practical cybersecurity for nonprofits

Protect donor, staff, and program information with security work shaped around limited budgets, lean teams, and changing access needs.

Resilience and recovery

Test whether critical services can be restored, identify fragile dependencies and leave recovery evidence that operators can use during an outage.

Retained IT and security management

Ongoing scheduled review, maintenance planning and advisory support under a retainer, so security and infrastructure work continues after a project ends.

Cloudflare security and edge services

Review and improve Cloudflare DNS, TLS, WAF, access and edge configuration with controlled rollout, evidence and a practical rollback path.

Cybersecurity and connectivity for construction firms

Secure offices, job sites, mobile teams, and project partners while keeping plans, communications, and business systems available.

Cybersecurity assessments

Assess current security controls, evidence and ownership, then turn verified findings into a prioritized and operationally realistic improvement plan.

Resource library

Incident-readiness questionnaire

Find the practical gaps that can slow decisions, communications, containment, evidence handling, and recovery during a cyber incident.

Security logging coverage and retention: design for the investigation

Build a logging plan from investigation questions, evidence paths and response ownership instead of collecting high-volume data without a use case.

Cybersecurity Assessment Scope: A Buyer’s Evidence Checklist

Define the decisions, service boundaries, evidence, testing depth and deliverables that turn a cybersecurity assessment into an actionable plan.

Patch management for small businesses: a routine that holds

Patching rarely fails for lack of tools. It fails when nobody owns it. A monthly update routine, an emergency lane and proof that the patches landed.

Privileged access and emergency access review

A worksheet for reviewing privileged access: who holds it, why, when it was last confirmed, and what evidence supports keeping it.

Ransomware Recovery Readiness: A Checklist You Can Prove

A practical checklist for proving ransomware recovery works: what to test, what evidence to keep, and which assumptions usually fail under pressure.

Security and infrastructure resource library

Browse HAI Consulting field guides, learning paths, templates and diagnostic tools by topic, technology or format.

Security assessment scoping and evidence worksheet

Define what an assessment must answer, gather evidence consistently, and separate verified findings from assumptions.

Security Operations

Operate privileged access, third-party connections and security evidence as owned lifecycles with tested recovery and shutdown paths.

Security logging coverage and retention worksheet

Map the events needed to investigate material incidents, verify collection and retention, and expose blind spots before an alert or outage.

Business email compromise: stopping payment fraud

Business email compromise turns a trusted email thread into a payment to the wrong account. The Microsoft 365 settings and payment checks that stop it.

DNS Migration With a Rollback Plan That Can Actually Work

A DNS provider migration runbook covering zone discovery, TTLs, DNSSEC, delegation, split authority, validation and the time-dependent realities of rollback.

Knowledge from the field

Cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Cisco and practical AI guidance.

Third-party remote access: control the whole connection lifecycle

Turn vendor and support access into an owned lifecycle with named identities, narrow paths, visible sessions, expiry and a tested shutdown method.

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