Managed security for California firms that hold regulated data — built on the Microsoft stack you already pay for.
Small firms are rarely breached by novel malware. They are breached through a credential that had nothing but a password behind it, a mailbox rule an attacker created and nobody noticed, or a laptop that left the company two years ago and never lost its access.
Every post-incident review we run lands in roughly the same place. The controls that would have stopped it were available in the Microsoft licence the firm already owned, and were never turned on. That is the actual gap in this market — not budget, and not sophistication. Configuration.
Cobrix is a Microsoft-centric MSSP. We do not resell a stack of third-party agents you will pay for twice. We configure and operate what Microsoft 365 Business Premium already includes, and we tell you plainly when something genuinely needs a product you do not yet own.
Phishing-resistant MFA through Entra ID, conditional access by device and location, and elimination of standing global-admin rights. Identity is where nearly every incident starts.
Microsoft Defender for Business deployed and tuned across managed devices, with Intune enforcing disk encryption, patch state and configuration baselines.
Defender for Office 365 policies for phishing and impersonation, plus DMARC, DKIM and SPF configured to enforcement rather than left in monitoring mode.
Purview retention and audit logging configured deliberately, so that when you need to prove what an attacker touched, the record still exists.
Security work that produces no evidence is indistinguishable from no security work when a regulator, an auditor or a cyber-insurance underwriter asks. That is the part most small firms are missing, and it is the part that costs them at renewal.
We produce a written control record: what is configured, what changed, which accounts hold privileged access, and where the gaps are that you have accepted rather than closed. It is written to be handed to a third party without translation.
We are a fit for California firms in regulated industries — healthcare, legal, accounting, real estate and construction — that run on Microsoft 365 and need the security and compliance sides handled together rather than by two vendors who blame each other.
We are not the right call for a firm that needs dedicated digital forensics for litigation-bound incidents, or one running a large on-premise estate that has no Microsoft footprint. We will say so on the first call rather than three months in.
Already in an incident? See ransomware and breach response. Need the regulatory side handled? See HIPAA and FTC Safeguards compliance. Phishing is the entry point in most incidents — see security awareness training.
An MSP keeps your technology working — devices, email, support tickets. An MSSP is accountable for whether it is defensible: identity controls, endpoint protection, logging, and the evidence that proves it. Cobrix does both, which matters because in most small firms the two functions fight each other. The security control that would stop an attack is frequently the one the help desk disabled to close a ticket faster.
Usually not at first. Business Premium includes Defender for Business, Defender for Office 365, Intune, Entra ID Premium P1 and Purview. In most firms we assess, the majority of those are unconfigured or partly configured. Turning on what you already own is the higher-return move, and it is where we start before recommending anything you would have to buy.
It scales with user count, device count and how much regulatory weight you carry — a 12-person CPA firm under FTC Safeguards is a different engagement from a 12-person construction firm. We quote after an assessment rather than from a price list, because a number given before we have seen your tenant is a guess.
Yes, and it is a common arrangement. Your incumbent keeps the help desk and day-to-day support; we take the security and compliance layer. It works when the boundary is written down. It fails when it is assumed.
An assessment of a Microsoft 365 tenant typically takes a few days and produces a written findings document with the gaps ranked by exploitability rather than by severity label. You keep the document whether or not you engage us.
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