Work
What keeps customers served when email or a key service stops?
Trawvid Sec identifies the systems and providers behind daily work and sets the recovery order.
Cyber Hygiene Checkup for small-business owners
Expose the dependencies that interrupt work and payments.
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The Cyber Hygiene Checkup traces the accounts, payments, files, backups, and providers behind daily operations. Trawvid Sec exposes the dependencies that create downtime, payment risk, and recovery delays, then sets the response order.
- 60 to 75-minute guided review
- No tool pitch
- No passwords or sensitive data required
Small-business cyber hygiene briefing
The cybersecurity decisions your business still owns.
Your IT provider can manage technology, but the business still owns the decisions that keep work moving, protect payments, preserve access, and restore operations. This briefing explains where that responsibility sits and what the Cyber Hygiene Checkup resolves.
Owner-level test
Separate readiness from guesswork with four questions.
Cut out the guesswork. Trawvid Sec verifies what keeps work moving, how money changes hands, whether recovery works, and who holds authority over critical systems.
Money
Who verifies a payment change before money leaves?
We establish a known verification path that never trusts the message requesting the change.
Recovery
What restores important work after a failure?
We verify backup coverage, demand evidence from a real restore, and define the maximum recovery time.
Ownership
Who owns critical accounts and takes charge?
We settle authority over administrator access, recovery methods, provider responsibilities, and emergency decisions.
A useful warning sign
If every answer starts with "I think," the business is guessing.
Run the business on verified facts, settled decisions, and people who know their authority before pressure arrives.
How the review works
Trace every critical path from sign-in to recovery.
Trawvid Sec connects the people, accounts, devices, providers, and backups behind daily work. We isolate immediate exposure and push lower-priority improvements out of the way.
Sign-ins
Email and important accounts
Who signs in, who resets access, how extra sign-in protection works, and what changes when someone joins, changes jobs, or leaves.
What we answer: How far does one stolen password or forgotten account reach?
Daily operations
Work that cannot stop
The files, systems, online services, and information the team needs to serve customers, move money, and meet deadlines.
What we answer: Does the business know what must come back first and where it lives?
Recovery
Computers, phones, cloud, and backups
Business devices, updates, protection, cloud services, backup coverage, and proof that important work restores.
What we answer: How quickly does the team restore the real work?
Outside access
IT providers, vendors, and advisors
IT support, software vendors, bookkeepers, payroll, payment services, contractors, and everyone else with influence over important work or money.
What we answer: Who reaches the business, what do they own, and who removes access?
A bad day
Email hacks, payment fraud, and lost devices
Who to call, what to stop, how to verify money requests, what evidence to save, and who holds authority for fast decisions.
What we answer: Who takes charge during the first hour?
Promises
Customer and insurance questions
The answers the business gives customers, insurers, and partners about how it protects information and keeps operating.
What we answer: Which facts support the owner's answers?
Step 01
Map the business as it actually runs
We trace how the team works, gets paid, stores files, uses outside providers, and recovers from ordinary problems.
Step 02
Expose the weak links
We lead a focused 60 to 75-minute review without collecting passwords, secret data, or technical diagrams.
Step 03
Set the response order
We explain the findings, settle the sequence, and put clear ownership behind the next 90 days.
What changes
Replace uncertainty with firm operating decisions.
Trawvid Sec turns scattered technical concerns into clear business decisions. We settle tradeoffs, sequence the response, and assign ownership before pressure dictates the agenda.
Five decisions that protect operations
Trawvid Sec isolates the decisions with the greatest effect on work, money, access, and recovery.
One right-sized sequence
We sequence the response across 30, 60, and 90 days without handing the business another technical backlog.
Leadership aligned on ownership
We explain the tradeoffs, settle ownership, and close the questions that stall action.
Built for ordinary small businesses
Small businesses that rely on outside IT or a lean internal team, but do not have one person looking across the whole business. Company size matters less than how much daily work depends on email, cloud systems, outside vendors, online payments, and shared access.
Field lessons
Small-business failures start with ordinary gaps.
One-person access stalls work. Unverified payment changes expose cash. Unowned tools burn budget without fixing the basics.
Incident retrospective
01
When one contractor held every key
More than a day of disruption, over $20,000 in delayed invoices, and roughly $4,000 in emergency costs.
Incident retrospective
01
When one contractor held every key
More than a day of disruption, over $20,000 in delayed invoices, and roughly $4,000 in emergency costs.
What happened
One outside IT contractor held the company administrator account, domain registration, firewall, backups, and several vendor accounts. The billing dispute damaged the relationship and locked the owner out of systems the company depended on.
What the incident exposed
Company-held emergency administration, company-owned recovery methods, a company password vault, a critical-account inventory, and written provider offboarding keep a provider dispute separate from daily operations.
Context: Trawvid Sec did not advise the company before this incident. The retrospective shows the ownership questions a Cyber Hygiene Checkup tests before an incident.
Illustrative composite
02
When security spending outran the basics
About $19,000 in annual IT and security spending while important accounts, old access, restore testing, and domain ownership remained unresolved.
Illustrative composite
02
When security spending outran the basics
About $19,000 in annual IT and security spending while important accounts, old access, restore testing, and domain ownership remained unresolved.
What happened
The business kept adding endpoint tools, filtering, backup services, firewall licenses, and managed security layers. Nobody confirmed whether every active account used MFA, old accounts remained open, backups restored real work, or the owner retained authority over the company domain.
Questions the Checkup tests
Confirm MFA, remove unused access, test one real restore, put critical recovery paths under company ownership, and challenge overlapping tools before the next renewal. The goal is a simpler environment that spends against business priorities.
Context: Relying on the salesmen and MSPs that get paid when you buy products leads to bloat and overspending
Incident retrospective
03
When one email nearly redirected $27,000
The business kept the $27,000, but mailbox investigation and cleanup still consumed roughly 18 staff hours.
Incident retrospective
03
When one email nearly redirected $27,000
The business kept the $27,000, but mailbox investigation and cleanup still consumed roughly 18 staff hours.
What happened
An attacker captured an employee password, monitored a real payment conversation, and replaced a vendor's instructions with fraudulent bank details. An unrelated verification call exposed the fraud before the transfer left.
What the incident exposed
MFA on every important account, forwarding-rule and recovery-access reviews, and out-of-band payment verification remove a stolen mailbox's authority to redirect a payment on its own.
Context: The retrospective focuses on practical safeguards that do not require an enterprise technology purchase.
Count the real cost
Price the uncertainty already draining the business.
Insurance, IT support, software, employee time, and recovery already consume budget. Trawvid Sec measures that spend against the work it protects and calls out tools, assumptions, and cleanup costs that deliver nothing in return.
Insurance cost
Answer insurance questions with facts, not guesses
Premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, and application answers already affect the business. The Checkup exposes unsupported answers before renewal or a claim tests them.
Use your numbers
Record the annual premium, deductible, renewal date, and every application answer that still depends on a guess.
Downtime cost
Know what one bad day costs
Payroll, delayed work, emergency support, customer concessions, and owner time add up while people decide what to stop and who has authority.
Use your numbers
Estimate affected gross margin or output + idle payroll + emergency help + customer or delivery impact for one realistic day.
Example: Five employees at a $40 loaded hourly cost for eight hours, plus six hours of emergency support at $200, equals $2,800 before lost sales, delayed work, or owner cleanup time.
Wasted spend
Stop paying for tools nobody owns
Even a functioning product wastes money when nobody checks it, understands it, or ties it to a business problem.
Use your numbers
Total the yearly cost of tools and services that lack a named owner, clear purpose, regular review, or keep/change/cancel decision.
Example: One unexplained $250 monthly service costs $3,000 each year. That annual cost makes a keep, change, or cancel decision worth verifying before renewal.
Cleanup cost
Clean up old accounts before growth makes it expensive
Growth adds accounts, devices, online services, vendors, and one-off exceptions. Clear ownership now costs less than rebuilding years of access under pressure.
Use your numbers
Estimate the internal and outside hours needed to list access, remove old accounts, standardize devices, map providers, document recovery, and verify the result.
Example: Twenty hours of later cleanup at $175 per hour is $3,500 before the owner's time or any operational disruption. Use your actual internal and outside rates.
Get the facts before a renewal, customer, or emergency sets the budget for you.
Price the uncertainty with your own payroll, downtime, insurance, and vendor costs. Cut out the guesses before urgency makes every option more expensive.
Direct engagement
Know the price before you commit.
$950 to $1,250
Business size, provider count, locations, and critical systems set the final price. Trawvid Sec confirms the exact amount before you commit. The Checkup requires no software purchase, subscription, or long-term contract.
Included in the price
One focused owner review
Trawvid Sec maps the business with high-level information and keeps passwords, secret data, and technical diagrams out of the meeting.
Five priorities tied to the business
We attach a business reason, named owner, and 30, 60, or 90-day position to each priority.
One private decision session
We explain the findings, challenge assumptions, and settle what deserves attention now.
Interested in funding Cyber Hygiene Checkups for a chamber, membership, supplier network, or small-business cohort? Plan a sponsored Checkup program.
Discuss the Checkup
Stop hidden dependencies from setting the agenda.
Trawvid Sec brings critical work, payments, files, providers, and recovery into one owner-level conversation. We isolate meaningful exposure and set a right-sized response.