SMB Cybersecurity Consulting

Enterprise-level security. SMB-friendly pricing.

Data-Frames brings continuous threat detection, real offensive testing, and automated response to small businesses who need genuine protection without an enterprise budget or an in-house security team.

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Full-stack defense, built for SMB budgets

Each layer runs independently and reports up — detection, response, and offense are never confused with one another, and you always know which system caught what.

Threat Detection & SIEM

Continuous log correlation and alerting across your environment. File integrity monitoring, vulnerability detection, and real-time alerting mean issues are caught in minutes, not discovered months later during an audit — built around the CIS Controls' continuous monitoring safeguard.

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Penetration Testing

Real offensive assessments against your infrastructure using industry-standard tooling — the same techniques an actual attacker would use, mapped against the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, so you find your gaps before someone else does.

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Security Automation & Response

Automated playbooks act on alerts the moment they fire — enrichment, containment, and notification triggered instantly, without waiting on a human to be available at 2am, covering the NIST CSF Respond function.

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Deception & Honeypots

An isolated decoy environment attracts and studies real attacker behavior, giving early warning of active threats before your production systems are ever touched — observed activity gets catalogued against MITRE ATT&CK.

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Compliance & Governance

Policy, risk, and continuity documentation structured around the NIST Cybersecurity Framework — built for organizations that need to demonstrate their security posture, not just maintain it privately.

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Incident Response Planning

A tested plan for the day something goes wrong — roles, escalation paths, and recovery steps defined and rehearsed before you need them, not improvised while it's happening, aligned to the NIST CSF Respond and Recover functions.

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Every service above is grounded in a recognized framework, not improvised:
NIST CSFThe NIST Cybersecurity Framework organizes everything we do into core functions — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover — so risk decisions and priorities follow a recognized structure, not guesswork.
CIS ControlsA prioritized, actionable set of safeguards — asset inventory, secure configuration, access control, continuous monitoring — that turns strategy into specific technical hardening steps we actually implement.
MITRE ATT&CKA knowledge base of real-world attacker tactics and techniques, used as a common language to map both our penetration testing and our detection coverage to what attackers actually do.
Who We Serve

Built for the industries that need it most

Every SMB has exposure, but some carry risks specific to what they do. Here's how that plays out in three of the industries we work with most.

Small Healthcare Practices

Patient records are a prime target, and HIPAA doesn't care about your headcount. We map technical safeguards to HIPAA's Security Rule so PHI stays protected and an audit stays survivable instead of existential.

Legal & Accounting Firms

Privileged client data and wire transfers make you a prime target for business email compromise. We harden the exact channels attackers use to intercept confidential filings and payment instructions.

Manufacturers

Ransomware doesn't just lock files — it stops production lines. We protect the operational systems and supply-chain connections that keep output moving, not just the front-office network.

Our Toolset

Built on recognized tools

No proprietary black boxes — the same open-source tools used across the security industry, so nothing you're protected by is a mystery.

Wazuh — Detection & SIEM

Open-source SIEM and XDR platform. Correlates logs across your environment in real time to catch intrusions, policy violations, and vulnerabilities as they happen, not weeks later.

Metasploit — Offensive Testing

The industry-standard penetration testing framework. Used to safely simulate real attacker techniques against your own infrastructure, under controlled conditions, to find gaps before someone else does.

Shuffle — Security Automation (SOAR)

Open-source security orchestration and automated response. Turns a detection alert into an automated containment or notification action immediately, instead of waiting on a human to be available.

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T-Pot — Deception & Honeypots

A multi-honeypot platform that deploys decoy systems to attract and study real attacker behavior, giving early warning of active threats before production systems are ever touched.

Engagement

How an engagement runs

Five steps from first conversation to ongoing protection — no long procurement cycle, no jargon you need a translator for.

Discovery & Risk Assessment

We map your environment, assets, and current exposure in a conversation, not a questionnaire — what you actually have, what matters most to the business, and where the real risk sits today.

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Scoping & Architecture

A tailored plan for detection, response, and testing coverage, sized to your environment and budget. You get exactly the tooling you need — nothing sold to you because it's on a package tier.

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Deployment

Detection and automation stood up in an environment built specifically for your business — nothing shared with, or visible to, any other client.

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Validation

Live testing against your own defenses confirms detection and response actually work under real conditions, not just that the software is installed and running.

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Ongoing Monitoring & Reporting

Regular, plain-language reporting on what was seen, what was blocked, and where your posture is trending — security as an ongoing relationship with someone who knows your business, not a one-time project.

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About

Built on decades of hands-on experience

Data-Frames is run directly by its founder — no account managers relaying information, no outsourced analysts you've never spoken to. When you call, you're talking to the person who actually configured your detection rules and ran your last assessment.

That comes from over three decades of hands-on IT and security work — not a career built around a single certification, but one built around actually keeping systems running and businesses protected, across enough different environments to know what really matters when something goes wrong versus what's just noise.

Data-Frames exists because SMBs are told they need "enterprise-grade" security and then handed enterprise pricing to match — or worse, nothing at all because it wasn't worth a big firm's time. That gap is the whole reason this business exists.

30+
Years in IT & security, hands-on
1:1
Direct access to who does the work — always
CISSP
Certification in progress, targeting completion soon
FAQ

Common questions

We're too small to be a target, right?

This is the most common misconception in SMB security, and it's backwards — most modern attacks are automated and don't care about your size. Small businesses are frequently targeted specifically because they're assumed to have weaker defenses than large enterprises, not despite being small.

What does a security assessment actually involve?

A structured look at your current environment — network, endpoints, access controls, and any existing tooling — followed by real (not simulated) testing of your defenses where appropriate. You get a plain-language report of what was found and what to prioritize, not a 60-page document full of jargon.

How is pricing structured?

Flat monthly tiers in CAD, scoped to your environment during the discovery call — see the Pricing section below. No hourly billing surprises, no long-term contract required to get started.

Do you replace our existing IT provider?

Not necessarily — Data-Frames focuses specifically on security (detection, testing, response), and works alongside whoever handles your day-to-day IT rather than requiring you to switch providers.

What's the honeypot / network-packets.com about?

It's a public demonstration environment currently in development — a deliberately exposed system designed to attract real attacker activity, so you'll be able to see actual detection and response in action rather than take a sales pitch's word for it. Ask us for a status update if you're curious where it stands.

Building our client track record

Data-Frames is a new engagement — we'd rather tell you that plainly than manufacture case studies that don't exist yet. We're also building a public demo environment so you'll eventually be able to see the underlying detection and response capability for yourself, not just take our word for it.

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Pricing

Straightforward monthly plans

All prices in CAD. Every engagement starts with a scoping call to confirm the right tier for your environment.

Essentials
$500 – $1,500 / mo
CAD, billed monthly
  • Core SIEM monitoring & alerting
  • Monthly security report
  • Email-based incident notification
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Standard
$1,500 – $3,500 / mo
CAD, billed monthly
  • Everything in Essentials
  • Automated response playbooks
  • Annual penetration test
  • Priority incident response
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Premium
$3,500 + / mo
CAD, billed monthly
  • Everything in Standard
  • Quarterly penetration testing
  • Compliance mapping & reporting
  • Dedicated response SLA
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Honeypot & Deception add-on — $300–$800/mo CAD. Adds a monitored deception layer for early warning on any tier.

Let's talk about your environment

Tell us a bit about your business and current setup. We'll follow up to schedule a scoping call — no obligation.

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