Security that fits how Dallas businesses actually work
Dallas County is home to a wide mix of small and mid-size organizations: accounting and law offices, insurance and real estate agencies, medical and dental practices, logistics and distribution companies, restaurants and hospitality groups, nonprofits, and growing technology firms. Their teams are spread across Downtown, Uptown, the Medical District, the Design District and suburban office parks. More and more of their work happens remotely from home, from client sites and even from the side of the road.
That spread is the security problem. The perimeter is no longer a building. It is every laptop, every mailbox and every cloud login. A managed security program for a Dallas business has to protect identities, email, devices and data wherever they happen to be, without requiring a full-time security team that a company of twenty or two hundred people cannot justify.
What Dallas small businesses usually need first
Every environment is different, and the free assessment is how we find out what yours needs. Based on how small-business attacks typically unfold, a handful of basics deliver most of the benefit:
- Stronger sign-in. Multi-factor authentication on email, remote access and administrator accounts, so a stolen password alone is not enough.
- Email protection. Filtering for phishing, spoofed executives and fake invoices, because email is still where most attacks begin.
- Endpoint detection. Modern protection on laptops and servers that can spot and contain suspicious behavior, not just known malware.
- Backups you have actually restored. A backup nobody has tested is a hope, not a plan.
- An honest inventory. You cannot protect devices, accounts and cloud services you do not know you have.
Our monitoring is automated and runs around the clock, so detection does not wait for business hours. What happens after an alert fires, including who investigates and what we can contain on your behalf, is written into your plan so you know the answer before you sign.
What a SommerTech plan can include
We build plans from a menu rather than forcing a bundle: managed detection and response, vulnerability management, email and endpoint security, and incident response preparation. If you need more than tooling, you can add leadership and training. A fractional vCISO sets priorities and policies, awareness training and phishing simulations prepare your people, and ransomware-focused hardening addresses the threat that worries most owners. If a renewal questionnaire is coming, our page on cyber insurance readiness explains how we approach it.
Pricing is a tailored flat monthly plan set after your assessment. There are no per-alert fees, and you will see what is included before you commit.
Working alongside your IT provider
Many Dallas businesses already rely on an internal IT person or an outsourced IT company. We do not replace them. We take the security side, including detection, response and security guidance, and work with your IT team so fixes actually get made. Clear ownership matters: for each recommendation, we will say who does what, so nothing falls into the gap between the two teams.
Remote-first, with on-site visits when they help
Most monitoring and advisory work happens remotely, which means your team gets the same service whether your office is near Love Field, along the Dallas North Tollway or out in the suburbs. When it helps to be in the room, such as a kickoff meeting, a staff briefing or a tabletop exercise, on-site visits are available across Dallas. We also serve the rest of the metroplex, including Fort Worth and Tarrant County and Plano, Frisco and Collin County.
Start with a free security assessment
The first step is a conversation, not a contract. We will:
- Learn how your business runs, what data matters most and which tools your team uses.
- Review the basics above: sign-in, email, devices, backups and who has access to what.
- Give you a short, prioritized list of what to fix first, in plain English.
- Recommend a flat monthly plan, or tell you honestly if you need less than we offer.