Small Businesses Are the Biggest Target. Bastion Is the Defense You Can Actually Afford.
Cybercriminals target small businesses precisely because they lack the security infrastructure of enterprises while holding the same valuable data: payment info, customer records, employee data, and intellectual property. Bastion is AI-powered cybersecurity monitoring we deploy and operate for small businesses and SaaS companies — continuous vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and incident response guidance — without the $200k/year CISO you can't justify.
IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report found that organizations without security AI and automation take an average of 277 days to identify and contain a breach — versus 177 days for organizations with automation. That 100-day gap translates to an average cost difference of $1.3M per incident. For small businesses, detection speed is the single most impactful factor in whether a breach is survivable.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report — illustrative of the scale, not a Scaler client result.
The average small business breach costs $200,000 — and 60% of small businesses hit by a cyberattack close within 6 months.
- 01Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report shows that 46% of all cyberattacks target small businesses — because the security is softer and the ROI for attackers is still high.
- 02Unpatched software vulnerabilities are the entry point for 60% of breaches. Most small businesses don't know what vulnerabilities they're running until after they're exploited.
- 03Ransomware attacks on small businesses average $170,000 in ransom demand — plus downtime costs, recovery costs, and reputational damage on top of that.
- 04HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and state data privacy regulations expose businesses to regulatory fines on top of breach costs — and most small businesses aren't compliant.
- 05Credential theft from phishing or dark web data dumps is the leading initial attack vector. Most small businesses have no monitoring for compromised credentials.
Live in days, not months.
Assess
We run an initial security assessment of your attack surface: external-facing systems, software versions, exposed ports, and credential exposure on breach databases.
Deploy
We deploy Bastion monitoring on your environment — continuous vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and dark web credential monitoring.
Monitor
Bastion monitors your systems continuously — surfacing new vulnerabilities as they're disclosed, detecting anomalous behavior, and flagging credential exposure.
Respond
When something is detected, you get an actionable alert with priority, context, and remediation guidance — not a raw CVE dump you can't interpret.
Enterprise-grade security visibility without an enterprise security budget.
- Continuous vulnerability monitoring that catches new CVEs affecting your stack before attackers exploit them.
- Dark web credential monitoring that alerts you when employee or customer credentials are found in breach databases.
- Threat detection that identifies anomalous access patterns, configuration changes, and suspicious activity in your environment.
- Compliance visibility for PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and state privacy regulations — so you know where you stand.
- Security expertise delivered through a managed service — not a software tool you need a security team to operate.
Questions, answered.
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