Security controls, put in place properly and documented.
Evolve provides cybersecurity services in Connecticut for businesses that need their security controls configured properly, monitored, and documented. We handle endpoint protection, email security, MFA and identity, Microsoft 365 hardening, and firewall policy — as a standalone project or as ongoing managed security.
Based in Shelton, with onsite support throughout Connecticut and remote support wherever your team works.
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Most security problems are not missing tools. They are unowned settings.
Many businesses we assess already have security products in place. What is missing is someone checking that they are turned on, cover everyone, and still match how the company works today. If three of these sound familiar, that is the actual problem.
MFA covers some accounts
Turned on during a migration, never audited since. Nobody can say which mailboxes, admin accounts, or contractors are still without it.
Endpoint protection is inconsistent
Three products across twenty machines, two licences expired, and the laptop that matters most was never enrolled at all.
Ex-employees still have access
Accounts disabled but not removed, licences still billing, and a shared mailbox nobody can trace back to a current employee.
The firewall was configured once
Set up by whoever installed the internet circuit, with rules added over the years and none ever removed. Firmware is whatever shipped on it.
Nothing is written down
No record of what is protected, what was changed, or when it was last reviewed. Then an insurance form or a client questionnaire arrives.
Nobody owns the whole picture
A vendor handles email, an office manager handles accounts, a shop handles repairs. Every piece has an owner. The overall configuration does not.
What our cybersecurity services in Connecticut cover.
Security is not one product. It is a handful of layers that have to be configured to fit your business and then kept current. Here is what we put in place, what each layer is actually for, and what documentation comes out of it.
Identity & access
MFAAdmin separationPassword management
Multi-factor authentication rolled out across every account, not the ones that were easy. Administrator access separated from day-to-day logins, a password manager the team will actually use, and a review of who has access to what.
Stolen credentials are the most common way a small business gets into trouble. This layer is the one that makes a leaked password much less useful to whoever bought it.
Endpoints
Endpoint protectionEDR / MDRPatchingHardening
One endpoint protection product across every workstation, laptop and server — with EDR or managed detection where the environment warrants it. Operating system and application patching on a schedule, local administrator rights reviewed, and disk encryption turned on.
Coverage is the point. Twenty protected machines and one unprotected laptop is a network with an unprotected laptop on it.
Email & Microsoft 365
Anti-phishingMail filteringSPF · DKIM · DMARCTenant hardening
Filtering and impersonation protection, external-sender warnings, mail authentication records set correctly so your own email is trusted, and Microsoft 365 tenant settings tightened — legacy sign-in methods, mailbox forwarding rules, and sharing defaults.
Email is where most attacks arrive and where invoice fraud happens. Related: Microsoft 365 & Email.
Network edge
Firewall policySegmentationRemote accessFirmware
Firewall rules reviewed and reduced to what the business needs, guest and device traffic separated from the network your files live on, remote access moved off open ports, and firmware kept current instead of whatever shipped in the box.
Segmentation limits how far a single infected machine can reach. Related: Network Design & Management.
Data & recovery
BackupRestore testingRetention
Backups of servers, workstations and Microsoft 365 data, held long enough to be useful, with restores tested rather than assumed. Copies kept where an attacker who reaches your network cannot simply delete them.
This is the layer that decides how bad a ransomware incident actually gets. Related: Backup & Disaster Recovery.
We do not sell guaranteed protection, and no honest provider does. What we sell is controls configured correctly, coverage you can see, and a written record of both — which is what materially reduces risk and what your insurer and your clients are asking about.
A security assessment, then a plan you can actually act on.
Before recommending anything, we look at what you already have. Most of what comes out of an assessment is work you can do in stages — and knowing the order matters more than doing all of it at once.
The first conversation
What you run on, what worries you, and whether something has already happened. If you need immediate help, we start there instead.
Assessment
Accounts, MFA coverage, endpoint protection, mail settings, firewall rules, backups, and who has access to what. Findings written down, including the uncomfortable ones.
Remediation in priority order
The gaps that carry real risk first, the housekeeping after. Quoted in writing, scheduled around your hours, and done without breaking how your team works.
Keeping it that way
Coverage checked, patches applied, new hires and departures handled, and the documentation kept current as the business changes.
- An inventory of accounts, devices and where protection is missing
- MFA and access coverage, account by account
- Findings ranked by risk, with the cost of fixing each
- What changed, when, and who approved it
If an account has been compromised, a phishing email got clicked, or you are cleaning up after an incident, that is remediation work and it does not wait for an assessment. Call us, or send the details and we will tell you what the next step is.
Security work is a project. Security itself is a standing job.
We will happily do the project on its own — roll out MFA, replace three antivirus products with one, clean up a tenant, rebuild firewall rules. But controls drift. Staff change, licences lapse, a new laptop skips enrolment, an exception gets made on a Friday and never gets reversed. The difference between the two columns below is not quality of work. It is who is responsible for the configuration next month.
Best when
You have a defined gap to close or something to clean up
You want the configuration to stay correct after we leave
Coverage checks
At the time of the work
Ongoing, including new devices and new hires
Patching
If scoped into the project
Scheduled and monitored
Alerts
Go to whoever is watching, if anyone is
Route to us first
Documentation
Covers the work performed
Kept current as the business changes
Billing
Quoted per project, or hourly
Part of a monthly plan
Ongoing security does not require the largest plan. Our Managed IT tiers start at Core, which exists precisely so a smaller team can have monitoring, patching, endpoint security and documentation running underneath it while paying for hands-on support only as it is used. Complete adds the support desk and the broader security stack; Elite includes labor and onsite response. Six people with client data and a cyber-insurance policy is a completely normal reason to have a managed layer.
Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell whether you have a project in front of you or a management problem underneath it.
Three real situations, and where we look first.
“Someone in accounting clicked a link and entered their password.”
Reset and revoke sessions, check for mailbox rules quietly forwarding mail, look at what else that account could reach, and find out whether an invoice or wire request went out under their name. Then close the gap that made it possible.
“Our largest client sent us a security questionnaire and we don’t know how to answer it.”
Go through it line by line, separate what is already true from what needs work, and put the missing controls in place so the answers are accurate. We will not help you answer yes to something that is not configured.
“We have MFA on some accounts, three antivirus products, and nobody owns any of it.”
Inventory first, then consolidate. One endpoint product everywhere, MFA across every account, the duplicate licences cancelled, and a written record of what is now covered — usually a cost reduction, not an increase.
The controls matter. Being able to prove them matters too.
Cyber-insurance applications, client vendor forms and audit requests now ask specific technical questions: is MFA enforced on email, is endpoint detection deployed, are backups separated from the network, who has administrator access. Unsupported or incomplete answers can complicate insurance renewals, vendor reviews, and client security questionnaires.
We implement the technical controls those questions ask about and document what was configured, when, and by whom. We are not attorneys, auditors or an insurance broker, and we do not certify anyone as compliant with a regulation — what we provide is the technical work and the written record you and your advisors need to answer accurately.
- A current record of MFA and endpoint coverage
- Firewall, mail and tenant configuration as it stands today
- Backup scope, retention, and the date of the last verified restore
- A change history, so “when was this last reviewed” has an answer
The documentation is yours. If you ever leave, you keep it.
Security touches the rest of the environment.
Identity, mail security and tenant administration live here. Most security work starts inside Microsoft 365.
Tested restores are what decide how a ransomware incident ends. Security and recovery are the same conversation.
Where security becomes a standing responsibility with an owner instead of a project that ended.
Questions we get before the first call.
Anything not covered here, ask us on the call. There is no wrong question.
Endpoint protection and EDR, email security and anti-phishing, MFA and identity management, Microsoft 365 security configuration, firewall and network security work, security assessments, endpoint hardening, and remediation after an incident. We do this as scoped project work and as ongoing managed security, depending on what you need.
No, and neither can anyone else honestly. What we can do is put the right controls in place properly, make sure they cover everyone rather than most people, keep them current, and document the configuration. That materially reduces risk and it is what your insurer and your clients are asking about.
Yes. We go through the technical questions with you, tell you which ones your environment already satisfies, and scope the work for the ones it does not. We implement controls and provide documentation of what is configured. We are not your broker, attorney or auditor, and the answers you submit remain yours.
No. An MFA rollout, an endpoint protection consolidation, a tenant cleanup or a firewall rebuild can all be quoted and done as standalone work. We will tell you plainly where ongoing management would keep that work from drifting, once, with reasons — not as a condition of doing the job.
Traditional antivirus matches known bad files. EDR — endpoint detection and response — watches behaviour on the machine, so it can catch activity that does not match a known signature, and it leaves a trail you can investigate. Whether it is worth it depends on your data, your insurance requirements, and what you would lose in a day of downtime. We will tell you if you do not need it.
Call us at (203) 433-2042 rather than filling in a form. We’ll get the details, tell you what to stop doing, assess what happened, and explain the fastest practical next step for containment and cleanup.
Compliance is a business and legal determination, not something an IT provider grants. What we do is implement and document the technical safeguards those frameworks expect — access control, MFA, encryption, endpoint protection, backup, logging, and a record of configuration — so that you and your compliance advisors are working from an environment that supports your obligations rather than against one that does not.
Find out where your security actually stands.
Twenty minutes with Evolve’s owner. We will ask what you run on, what you are worried about, and tell you plainly what is worth doing first.
356 Howe Ave, Shelton, CT · (203) 433-2042 · Mon–Fri 10–7, Sat 10–4