Most business advice tells you not to work with family.
My dad and I ignored that.
We're a father-son founders from the U.S. Intelligence Community. We built SSO because the businesses in our community deserved the same caliber of protection we spent our careers providing to the nation's most critical systems.
Based in San Diego. Serving businesses nationwide.
Security is our foundation, not our add-on. We started as a cybersecurity company and built IT services on top of it. Not the other way around.
One proven system. Every client. We spent years in R&D before we deployed to a single customer. That framework stays consistent because that's how real security works.
We don't just advise. We fix it. Assessment, strategy, and implementation under one roof. No handoffs. No PDFs full of recommendations you have to figure out on your own.
Meet the Founders
My dad, Rusty, is an Veteran who served in the Air Force supporting special operations before decades of work in the defense industry building and securing systems in the intelligence community where failure wasn't measured in downtime. It was measured in national security.
I grew up around that world. Worked in the intel community myself. Saw firsthand how the most critical systems were protected, and how different that looked from what small businesses were getting from their IT providers.
The conversation that became SSO started with a simple observation: the country was spending billions on cybersecurity for government and defense, while the businesses in our own neighborhoods were left completely exposed. The big IT firms didn't want clients under 500 employees. The local IT providers were reactive and underqualified. And the business owners in the middle were left hoping nothing bad happened.
That wasn't good enough for either of us.
What We Believe
Some of the hardest things we've ever built started with something simple.
We anchored everything at SSO to a basic belief: security should not be complicated for the customer. Technology should create confidence, not friction.
From that belief came three words that still guide every decision we make: Secure. Stable. Affordable.
On paper, it sounds obvious. In practice, it's been the most challenging project my dad and I have ever worked on. In IT and cybersecurity, there are endless services, tools, threats, and opinions. Every problem can be solved by adding more layers, more products, more cost. The easy path is to keep adding.
The hard path is asking, every time: how do we keep this secure without making it fragile? How do we keep it stable without making it rigid? How do we keep it affordable without cutting corners?
That tension is what SSO is built on.
We Don't Send Proposals. We Have Conversations
We don't pitch. We talk. Every relationship starts with a real conversation. A 30-minute strategy session where we learn about your business and give you something useful, whether you hire us or not. We don't send proposals before we've had that conversation because a number without context is meaningless.
We don't customize. On purpose. Every client runs on the same proven infrastructure. Our engineers dedicate time every day to R&D, improving what lives inside the framework. But nothing reaches a client environment until it's been tested in ours first. The architecture stays consistent. What runs inside it keeps getting better.
We don't just tell you what's wrong. A lot of cybersecurity firms will audit your systems, hand you a report, and wish you luck. We assess, recommend, and implement. When we identify a problem, we also fix it. You don't need to hire someone else to act on what we found.
Built for Businesses That Want IT to Just Work
Construction companies, healthcare-adjacent businesses, skilled trades, manufacturing, distribution, franchise operations. Businesses with 30 to 300 employees who need their technology to work as hard as they do.
We're deeply rooted in San Diego through EO San Diego, ProVisors, and the relationships we've built over years of showing up. But we serve clients nationwide because our service delivery was built for remote from the start.
Vision:
"Deliver Secure, Stable, and Affordable solutions to help SMBs Survive and Thrive!
WHAT WE STAND FOR
We built SSO on a set of CORE Values we call BE-REAL. Here's what that means.
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Achieve and maintain a balanced life.
Work is important and it's necessary for the company to succeed and to protect our clients and our staff members. However, work should be well planned and executed which helps to prevent real or perceived "emergencies". Through the normal course of the work year, we should plan a full day each day and do good work to succeed as individuals and as a company.
Working all hours for the company, without proper rest and eating is not healthy. If you're not healthy, it's not good for the company and it's not good for your personal live.
If you're stressed at work and always under pressure, that will most likely affect your personal life. If your personal life is effected negatively, it will probably come back around to affect your work life negatively. If that happens, then all the stress you experienced and all the long hours you put in will not have achieved what you really wanted to achieve and, in most cases, you won't be happy about it.
Don't burn out. Instead, work hard, play hard and spend good, valuable time with family and friends.
Look for the right balance between our staff and our clients - each are important.
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Get energized - don't just sit back and wait for things to happen - be proactive.
Do things that energize yourself and others
We live in a world of rapidly changing technologies and solutions - engage and continue to learn for the company and for yourself.
Engage and communicate with others - don't keep things to yourself when sharing would be better.
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Be real - be realistic. Don't make wild claims or blue sky plans. Create well-developed and well-thought out plans and execute on a realistic timeframe.
Don't claim we can do something that we can't do.
Under-commit and over-perform rather than the opposite.
Bring realistic solutions to the table and make good things happen.
Don't put on a false persona - be yourself - be real
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We run a cyber security company and it is imperative that our clients are able to fully trust us as individuals and as a company. At all times, think of the impacts of ethics on the decisions you make and the actions you take whether anyone is watching or not.
Be honest when someone asks you for something. Don't exaggerate and don't lie. That's not the person you really want to be.
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Don't leave others on their own when they need help - look for opportunities to help others including our clients and your team mates. What goes around comes around. If you reach out to help others when they need help, we can only hope, and expect, that others will help you when you need it.
We train our staff on the baseline way we do certain things so we're all rowing in the same direction - in almost every instance, once you learn how we do things, we encourage you to come up with ways to help us do it better!
Have a suggestion for the team? Bring it up and help make good things happen.
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We believe in servant leadership. Leading doesn't mean being arrogant. Leading doesn't mean being mean or being a tyrant. Become someone others want to follow and go do good things in this world.
See a problem? Bring it up with a proposed solution first.
Begin with Yes… don't start with no… people want to follow people who can make things happen
Every business owner out there is building something that matters to them. They shouldn't have to become a cybersecurity expert to keep it safe.
That's our job. And it's the reason my dad and I get up every morning.