Security claims are easy to buy and hard to verify. Kastro helps small teams understand what is actually covered, what is assumed, and what would happen if a device is lost, a mailbox is compromised, a backup fails, or a vendor goes quiet.
This is a review and planning service, not a 24/7 SOC or emergency response desk. The output is a practical continuity picture: the gaps that matter, the controls worth improving first, and the specialist options to consider when the risk justifies it.
For a one-person operation, that honesty is the point. You get independent security judgment without being sold an oversized managed-security package.
what we deliver.
Security and Backup Review
Review endpoint, identity, email, backup, MSP, and cloud controls at a level that matches a small business rather than enterprise theatre.
Restore-Drill Validation
Check whether restore procedures are documented, recent, assigned, and testable. Where appropriate, guide a bounded restore test with the current provider.
MSP Coverage Review
Compare security promises against actual coverage, exclusions, reporting, escalation paths, and who is responsible during an incident.
Incident Response Planning
Create a simple runbook for likely incidents: compromised mailbox, lost laptop, ransomware suspicion, vendor outage, and failed restore.
Control Gap Prioritization
Turn existing provider reports, backup findings, access gaps, and policy questions into a prioritized improvement list that a small team can act on.
Staff Awareness Basics
Provide practical guidance for phishing, MFA, password managers, device loss, reporting suspicious activity, and executive approval workflows.
Monitoring and Alert Design
Design what should be monitored, who should receive alerts, and what response path makes sense before buying another dashboard.
Security Leadership Guidance
Time-boxed advisory for risk registers, board conversations, supplier questions, and deciding when a specialist provider is warranted.
real-world scenarios.
Backup Confidence Check
A firm pays for backup but no one has recently proven which systems can be restored, how long it takes, or who owns the process.
Kastro reviews backup scope, retention, restore procedures, and provider promises, then identifies the smallest useful restore validation exercise.
Mailbox Compromise Runbook
The business knows a compromised inbox would be painful, but nobody has a written first-hour checklist.
Kastro creates a practical response path covering account containment, evidence preservation, customer communication, vendor escalation, and follow-up hardening.
Security Tool Reality Check
A company has endpoint security, email filtering, backup, and an MSP portal, but reporting is noisy and ownership is unclear.
Kastro separates useful controls from theatre, prioritizes the gaps that matter, and recommends whether to fix internally, push the MSP, or bring in a specialist provider.
ready to test the assumptions?
Book a security and continuity review to find the gaps that matter before an incident exposes them.