Security controls that fit a company without a security team

Baseline controls mapped to CIS, rollout guides written for real users, incident playbooks you can follow at 2am, and honest pricing on what security actually costs.

Small companies get enterprise security advice and enterprise security pricing, then buy neither and end up with an antivirus subscription and hope.

HardenHQ ranks controls by risk reduction per hour of work. MFA on email beats almost everything else you could do this month. Tested backups beat almost everything after that. Most of the rest can wait, and some of it should never be bought at all.

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Guides on this site

Baseline and identity

The controls that stop most attacks, in the order worth doing them.

Resilience

Surviving the incident you did not prevent.

Compliance and proof

Evidence for auditors, insurers and enterprise customers.

Tools and spend

What to buy, what to skip, and what it should cost.

Tools and checklists

Score your current posture and work the baseline control by control.

HardenHQ publishes general security guidance, not a security assessment of your environment. Controls must be adapted to your systems, contracts and regulatory obligations. Engage a qualified professional before relying on any configuration described here.