Cybersecurity Services in Boca Raton, FL
Money moves through Boca Raton every day: wealth managers, lenders, title closings, medical billing and retirement accounts. That makes local firms a target for invoice fraud, account takeover and ransomware. NetSys runs the controls that stop those attacks, from managed detection and response to email security and phishing training, remotely from Brooklyn with a staffed security operations center behind them.
The short answer
NetSys provides cybersecurity services for Boca Raton organizations: ThreatDown managed detection and response with a staffed security operations center, Microsoft Defender for Business, multifactor authentication and Entra ID Conditional Access, Barracuda email protection and DMARC, KnowBe4 phishing training, Rapid7 InsightVM vulnerability scanning, Keeper password management, protected backups and a written incident response plan. Everything is run remotely from Brooklyn, and we do not send engineers to Boca Raton sites. The only free offer is an external penetration test, done remotely within an agreed scope. Ongoing security is priced per user per month after an assessment.
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How cybersecurity is delivered in Boca Raton
Security suits remote delivery better than most of IT, because almost every control lives in software. ThreatDown and Defender agents report to consoles that are watched around the clock, and the security operations center can isolate an infected laptop from the network within minutes of a detection, wherever the laptop happens to be. Identity controls sit in Entra ID, email filtering in Barracuda, scanning in Rapid7 and backups in Datto or Veeam, all managed from Brooklyn. NetSys does not send engineers to Boca Raton offices, so the physical steps are written down ahead of time: during an incident your office manager follows a one-page sheet to unplug a device or power down a switch on our instruction, and replacement equipment ships configured. Logs are kept centrally, so the evidence does not depend on anyone reaching the building. Monitoring runs 24/7 from Brooklyn, and so does emergency service. Our staffed help-desk hours are 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time, seven days a week. The proposal states severe-incident escalation, authorized remediation and any other after-hours work.
The attacks Boca Raton businesses actually face
Most losses here start in an inbox, not with a sophisticated hack. A criminal gets into a mailbox through a phishing page or a stolen password, reads the conversation for a few weeks, and then sends new wire instructions just before a real estate closing, a capital call or a vendor payment. Wealth and medical offices also see impersonation aimed at their clients: a lookalike domain, a spoofed advisor or a fake billing department calling an older patient. Other common patterns are multifactor fatigue prompts, QR-code phishing that moves the attack onto a personal phone, and ransomware delivered through an unpatched remote access tool. The defenses are partly technical, through phishing-resistant sign-in, DMARC at enforcement and lookalike domain monitoring, and partly procedural, such as a call back to a known number before any banking change.
What Palm Beach County incidents have shown
Two public incidents in Palm Beach County show how these attacks play out. In May 2019 an employee of the Riviera Beach police department opened a malicious email, and ransomware spread to the city's email, 911-related systems, payment systems and water pump controls; the council voted to pay 65 bitcoin, about $600,000, through the city's insurance. In April 2022 a cybersecurity incident at Tenet put St. Mary's Medical Center and Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach on downtime procedures, with staff charting on paper and ambulances diverted from St. Mary's for a time. The lessons scale down to a 20-person office: stop the first phishing click with filtering and training, contain it with endpoint detection and network segmentation, keep backups out of an attacker's reach, and practice working without systems for a day.
The controls we put in place in the first month
Order matters, so the first month follows a sequence. Week one turns on multifactor authentication for every account, moves administrators to separate privileged accounts and blocks legacy sign-in protocols. Week two deploys ThreatDown across every computer and server, retiring the old antivirus, and puts Barracuda in front of the mailboxes. Week three sets DMARC to monitoring and moves it toward enforcement as legitimate senders are fixed, adds Conditional Access rules that refuse unmanaged devices, and moves shared passwords into Keeper. Week four runs the first Rapid7 scan, a baseline KnowBe4 phishing test and a restore from backup. You end the month with a written incident response plan: who calls whom, what the insurer needs, where the logs are and which systems come back first.
Florida's breach law and the rules your industry adds
The Florida Information Protection Act, section 501.171, sets the baseline for any business holding personal information on Floridians. It requires reasonable security measures. After a breach, affected people must be told within 30 days of determining it happened, the Department of Legal Affairs must be notified when 500 or more Floridians are affected, and credit reporting agencies when notices go to more than 1,000 people at once. A vendor holding data on your behalf has 10 days to tell you. Civil penalties for notice failures can reach $500,000 per breach, and the statute creates no private right to sue. Industry rules sit on top: HIPAA for medical practices, Regulation S-P for advisers and broker-dealers, and the FTC Safeguards Rule for lenders and tax preparers. This is general information, not legal advice.
Cybersecurity in Boca Raton: what NetSys delivers
Detection and response
- ThreatDown managed detection and response with EDR agents on every workstation, laptop and server, monitored 24/7
- Microsoft Defender for Business and Rapid7 InsightIDR telemetry from identities, email and endpoints, with a person acting on alerts
Identity and email
- Entra ID Conditional Access and multifactor authentication across Microsoft 365, with legacy authentication switched off
- Privileged access and privileged identity management so admin rights are granted just in time and removed afterwards
Exposure and recovery
- Rapid7 InsightVM vulnerability scanning on a schedule, with findings fixed rather than filed
- Cisco Meraki or Fortinet firewall management, segmentation and DNS filtering on office and remote devices
Firewall, antivirus and maintenance for a five-person office
A five-person office needed the basics done properly rather than an enterprise stack. NetSys replaced the internet provider's router with a business-grade firewall configured with sensible rules, secure remote access and logging, deployed managed antivirus on every machine with updates and alerts handled centrally, and put patching, backup checks and health reviews on a schedule. The agreement covers what the office needs and nothing it does not, month to month. No outcome figures were measured for publication.
Cybersecurity work for other clients
- Insurance
Regional title insurance company
Barracuda email protection for 85 users, phishing simulations, employee security training, and MFA deployment.
Security Awareness & Phishing TrainingIT for Insurance Agencies and Brokers
Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Boca Raton client.
What cybersecurity costs in Boca Raton
Cybersecurity is priced per user per month when it runs as an ongoing service, and per project for an assessment or a remediation. What moves the number: how many devices and identities are in scope, how much incident remediation and recovery is needed beyond the monitoring and authorized MDR actions in scope, which compliance standard the evidence has to satisfy, and whether the Microsoft 365 tenant is already on Business Premium or the security tooling comes from us. The free external penetration test costs nothing and runs remotely before any of that. Our managed IT pricing page explains how the fee is built.
Who this fits, and who it does not
Best fit: businesses with enough people, money movement or regulated data that a breach would hurt, and no security team of their own: professional practices, healthcare groups, importers, financial firms, nonprofits and agencies holding client credentials. Companies with an internal IT person fit as a co-managed arrangement.
Read next
Industry pages: IT for Financial Services · IT for RIAs & Wealth Management
Terms used on this page: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) · Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) · Conditional Access
Guides: MDR versus antivirus for a small business · the Conditional Access policies to turn on first
Related pages
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Also in Boca Raton: IT Consulting · IT Support · Managed IT Services
Industry pages for Boca Raton: IT Support for Financial Services in Boca Raton, FL · Wealth Management IT Support in Boca Raton, FL
Cybersecurity elsewhere: Tampa · Florida · Fort Lauderdale · Jacksonville · Miami · Orlando
Related services: Penetration Testing · Cyber Insurance Readiness · Security Assessments · Managed Detection & Response (MDR)
Cybersecurity in Boca Raton: FAQs
How does cybersecurity work for Boca Raton organizations?
After a short assessment, the controls go in over about a month and then run as a managed service. Agents on every computer feed ThreatDown and Defender alerts to a staffed security operations center, and our engineers handle Microsoft 365 security settings, email filtering, scanning and backups from Brooklyn. If a detection looks real, the device is isolated first and investigated second, at any hour. Your staff can call the help desk from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern with suspicious emails or sign-in prompts, and severe incidents reach a dedicated engineer immediately. Nothing requires a technician in your Boca Raton office.
How much do cybersecurity services cost in Boca Raton?
Ongoing security is priced per user per month after an assessment, and NetSys does not publish a rate card. The figure moves with the number of computers and servers protected, the ThreatDown coverage level you need, whether email security, training and scanning are included, the evidence your insurer, regulator or clients expect, and how much incident response planning is in scope. One-off projects, such as hardening a Microsoft 365 tenant or replacing a firewall, are quoted after scoping. The external penetration test is free, and nothing in the security agreement locks you in past the current month.
What does the free external penetration test include?
It is a remote test of what your business exposes to the internet, run within a scope we agree in writing first: your public IP addresses, firewall and VPN, remote access portals and any web applications you list. Our engineers look for open services, default or weak credentials, unpatched software and misconfigurations an attacker could use, then write up what they found, ranked by risk, with the fix for each item. It does not test inside your network or your staff. The report is also useful evidence for a cyber insurance application or a client's security questionnaire.
What should we do in the first hour of a ransomware attack?
Call your dedicated engineer, who takes ransomware calls at any hour. Do not wipe or reinstall anything, and do not reply to the attackers; instead disconnect affected machines from the network by pulling the cable or turning off Wi-Fi. We isolate devices through ThreatDown, disable compromised accounts, protect the backups and preserve logs, then call your cyber insurer's hotline with you, since many policies require their approved responders. NetSys has handled more than 30 ransomware incidents in three years, and every client recovered fully; those with a disaster recovery plan were back within 24 hours.
Do Boca Raton businesses need cyber insurance, and can you help with the application?
Insurance is a business decision, but most applications now ask the same questions: is multifactor authentication on email, remote access and administrator accounts; is endpoint detection and response deployed everywhere; are backups offline or immutable and tested; do staff get phishing training; and is there an incident response plan. We answer the technical questions accurately, produce the evidence the underwriter asks for, such as MFA reports and backup test results, and close any gaps before renewal so the answers are true when you sign. Your broker handles coverage, limits and price.
See what an attacker sees before they do.
The free assessment is a remote external penetration test, limited to the information available to NetSys and the external scope we agree with you. Internal reviews and ongoing security management are scoped separately.