We hate to see a small business go down for hours or days, wasting the time that should be spent building their business, trying to deal with a server issue.

Servers are Expensive, Unreliable, and Unnecessary

Servers create a single point of failure, are increasingly expensive as they get older and EOL, and even have negative impacts on your power bill. Servers are an artifact of the past, the old, and the expensive. Simply put, you probably don’t need them any more.

 Our Secured-IT practice combines a single On-Site cloud managed Firewall and a move to our very strong relationship with Microsoft using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure for near 100% cloud-based infrastructure.

Digital Transformation to Microsoft 365 | Simplified

For most of you that have been around a while, the basics of your digital transformation will start with moving you away from using a legacy IT approach using servers to a modern IT approach using cloud services. It doesn’t matter if your servers are physical, virtual, hosted at your office or hosted by a 3rd party – the server approach has the same limitations and high costs in all cases and we need to root them out of your company as much as is practical.

• You will never again have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for server upgrades, software licenses, or systems to protect your servers.

• You will never again have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a month for server monitoring, maintenance and disaster recovery services.

By combining our passion for technology with the emotional connection of a personalized environment, we make the work day as pleasant and efficient as possible.

SSO has developed the SOHO Cloud-IT package specifically to address the needs of small office and home office

With our help, your company will have:

Cloud hosting keeps you mobile:

Accessing your applications from the cloud is vital to maintaining a sales flow. It also gives employees an opportunity to work from anywhere.

Save Money:

Cloud hosting saves you money by eliminating the need for pesky in-house servers. You pay a monthly or annual fee and your hosting provider takes care of the rest.

Future proof your business:

Nothing is more reassuring than making sure your business stays up-to-date and on the edge of new technology. Working with your applications in the cloud keeps your apps up-to-date with the latest revisions and makes sure your performance is elite-class.

All of our day to day solutions are powered by the Microsoft Cloud and all of our Cloud Pro’s are certified in the Microsoft Cloud

We live, eat, breath and sleep the Microsoft Cloud and We want to migrate the painful and expensive infrastructure you have on prem to the cloud and minimize your on-prem presence to only things that are essential. Support your on prem and remote workers with one solution. 

Microsoft Teams Virtual Environment

No Servers | No Physical Office | True Business Continuity

Secure Stable and Affordable

Our services are built on security and at its core is the:

Inventory:

Simply put, you cannot secure what you don't know you have. Security starts with inventory.

You can't tell if you've lost something if you don't keep track of when you got it, what you did with it, who has it, and where it is.

Inventory of each of the five elements is the most basic foundation of the Five Point Secured-IT Framework. 

Inventory basically evolves through three phases:

1. Static Inventory

2. Active Inventory

3. Proactive Inventory

It starts simple, and then iterates until it becomes more complex but more effective as well. The objective is to achieve "Continuous Inventory" using a proactive inventory solution.

Map to the inventory requirements / controls in the CIS-20 CSCs:

• HW Inventory CSC-01

• SW Inventory CSC-02

• Credentials Inventory CSC 04-01

• Data Inventory CSC 13-01

• Staff Inventory CSC 17

Governance:

Governance mandates what we are supposed to do, and even required to do, in an IT environment and in a company - it's the guidance we follow when we take action. Governance often comes in the form of written policies.

• Policies identify what data is important and what data is not.

• Policies tell us what data we are supposed to secure and how significantly we are supposed to secure it.

• Policies give us guidance as to who should and who should not have access to sensitive data.

• Policies give our staff guidance on what is appropriate behavior and what is not.

Budget:

We can't meet the guidance of the Governance if we don't have the budget to install and maintain the controls mandated by policy. Governance is leveraged to help develop the budget to protect what needs to be protected most, and then the next important thing, and the next on down the line. The highest risk Hardware, Software, or Data should receive the strongest security protection. Often, staff is considered the highest risk and security training becomes the earliest control implemented in the company as a result.

In order to develop a budget, the security options must be well-researched, well understood and proven by the security implementation team. In the absence of these factors the risk to maintain successful cost control is high.

We develop planning with the focused intent to protect the most important data first, and the less important data after that must be well understood. With knowledge of the cost of the security solutions to implement the security controls to protect the data, a single security remediation effort can be planned or an iterative effort can be planned over several, well organized and risk driven iterations. In some cases the iterative approach is preferable so the budget can be spread across several iterations. During budget planning it is very important to understand the upfront non-recurring engineering costs, and the recurring subscription costs of security solutions, but also operating costs of those solutions. Someone has to monitor and maintain the security solutions and in many cases respond to alerts and indications generated by the security tools. This budget must also be planned accordingly.

Security:

Once we have a budget, we can begin to work on the security remediation plan to close the gaps identified during the assessment by installing effective security solutions.

In general, we implement security to drive down risk starting from the highest risk and work to lower risk. Not everything can be secured to the maximum extent - it's just not feasible or affordable to do so. As a result, the primary approach is to secure what you can and drive down your risk to meet your "risk appetite" - the level of risk acceptable to your company, and then transition the residual risk through cyber insurance.

In many cases it is valuable to map the required security controls to a well-known standard such as the CIS-20 CSCs (Center for Internet Security 20 Critical Security Controls). When this is done properly, your security provider will have a set of well developed, mature security solutions to implement the security controls defined by the standard.

Process:

The fifth aspect, Process, addresses to primary categories:

• The processes to define, install, configure, test & verify IT components and the security configurations and controls

• The process to iterate and update the framework across all the elements

All things in IT and Cyber Security change continuously. Modifications are made to systems and sometimes patches or modifications are not properly implemented - sometimes things get missed. Staff members come and go and people enter and leave security groups.

A Process must be defined that calls for a periodic Assessment, Feedback, and Improvement, which is critical to maintaining a successful Secured-IT environment.

The results of assessing are fed back for continuous improvement. This is the mark of a mature and effective organization.

Soho Cloud-IT Program:

Four Primary Elements

There are four primary elements to your SSO “SOHO Cloud-IT” program:

1.    Secure IT (IT Remote Monitoring and Management) system

2.    Secure Operating System (Windows 10 Pro)

3.    Secure Office Software (M365 Business Premium or Enterprise)

4.    Secure Office Network (Network security options specified to meet your needs)