I'm a senior cybersecurity engineer based right here in Locust Grove. I'm the same person who secures a Fortune 500 company's entire network every day. Now I bring that same expertise to local small businesses, at a price that actually makes sense.
Small businesses are attacked every 11 seconds in the U.S. Not because they're personally targeted. Because they're the easiest door on the street. Here's what it actually looks like.
It's a Tuesday morning. You get an email from what looks like one of your suppliers — same email address, same signature. Says they've updated their bank account. You make the change in QuickBooks and send the next payment. Two weeks later your vendor calls asking where their money is. It went to a hacker overseas. The bank almost never reverses it. That's vendor email compromise. It wipes out small contractors every single day.
You come in on a Monday, open your computer, and everything is encrypted. Your customer list, inventory, accounting — all locked with a ransom demand for $8,000 in Bitcoin. You call IT. They say your backup hasn't run in six months. Your register is down. You can't take a single payment. Most businesses in this situation were never specifically targeted. They were just the easiest door on the street.
A patient calls your front desk furious. Their identity was stolen, and your office is the only place with all their information. Now you have a HIPAA breach, a potential lawsuit, and a letter you're legally required to send to every patient you've ever seen. Federal fines start at $100 per record. With 2,000 patients, that's $200,000 minimum, before you speak to an attorney. The cause? One clicked link in one phishing email.
A hacker monitors your email silently for weeks. The moment a closing is scheduled, they send your client an email that looks exactly like it came from you — with new wiring instructions. Your client transfers $85,000 to the hacker's account. Gone within hours. The FBI recovers less than 30 cents on the dollar even when they move immediately. Wire fraud is the fastest-growing financial crime targeting real estate professionals.
Most IT guys hand you a generic PDF. I do what enterprise security teams do: find actual vulnerabilities in your specific environment and tell you exactly what to fix first.
85% of breaches start with email. I'll check whether your domain can be spoofed to trick your customers or vendors, review your email security configuration, and assess how exposed you are to phishing attacks right now.
Who has access to what — and should they? I'll review all accounts, find stale or orphaned logins, check for missing multi-factor authentication, and flag the access points an attacker would go to first.
One unsegmented network means a customer's phone has the same access as your accounting computer. I'll test your router configuration, guest network separation, and firewall settings on-site.
Every computer, tablet, and device connected to your business is a potential entry point. I'll look at all of them: outdated software, missing protection, unencrypted drives, and rank the highest-risk ones.
Every cloud app you use — accounting, storage, email, scheduling — is an attack surface. I'll map your full software footprint and check for misconfigured permissions that could expose your business data.
A plain-English written report with every finding, its real risk level, and a prioritized fix list. What to handle this week, what can wait. Includes a 45-min walkthrough call and a 30-day check-in.
Designed for small businesses in Henry County and Metro Atlanta that hold customer data, process payments, or handle anything that would hurt, financially or reputationally, if it fell into the wrong hands.
HIPAA compliance isn't optional. It's federal law. Patient data is among the most valuable on the black market. One breach means six-figure fines and a letter to every patient you've ever treated.
Wire fraud specifically targets real estate professionals because of the large transaction amounts. Your email inbox may be the single most dangerous thing in your business right now.
You hold sensitive client data that criminals will pay serious money for. State bars and the IRS take data breaches seriously. You need more than an off-the-shelf antivirus subscription.
Point-of-sale systems, customer Wi-Fi, and payment data are all active targets. Most retail breaches are discovered by card networks — not the business owner — months after the fact.
I've spent 5+ years as a full-time cybersecurity engineer protecting one of the largest utility companies in the Southeast. I hold the CISSP, the most rigorous certification in cybersecurity, required by the U.S. Department of Defense and held by fewer than 160,000 people worldwide. I live in Locust Grove, I know this community, and I started Kennedy Cyber because small businesses here deserve the same level of protection big companies pay millions for, at a price that actually makes sense.
I'm not an MSP trying to lock you into a monthly contract. I'm not a software company trying to sell you a platform. I'm a neighbor with a CISSP who will look at your actual systems, tell you honestly what's broken, and give you a prioritized plan to fix it, whether that costs $50 or $5,000. No fluff. No scare tactics beyond what's real.
You know exactly what you're getting before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no ongoing commitment unless you want one.
No jargon, no runaround. If you have a question not listed here, just ask.
15 minutes. No pressure, no obligation. Tell me about your business and I'll tell you honestly what your risk looks like — even if that answer is 'you're in good shape.'
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