Trade runs on machinery. A point of sale that has to take a card. An inbox that approves payments. A back office holding every customer you have ever served. We run the security around that machinery as a monthly subscription, priced by the unit, so a single shop can buy the controls a chain buys.
The loss that closes a small trading business is quiet. A copy of the customer list walks out, or a supplier payment lands in the wrong account, and the first hard evidence turns up weeks later on a bank statement. Four openings appear behind a counter more reliably than any others.
It takes cards every day and has not been restarted since the fit out. Closing for an afternoon to patch it costs real money, so it never happens, and the machine handling payments quietly becomes the oldest software in the building.
Quotes, invoices, and the bank all arrive at one address. Take it and nothing needs breaking. You reply on a thread that already exists, attach fresh account details, and wait.
An export for the mailing house. A spreadsheet on the manager laptop. A decade of orders in the back office system. Ask where all the copies live and nobody in the building can answer.
Christmas cover, a summer run, the contractor who fitted the stock system. The work finished years ago. The accounts did not, and every one of them still works.
Buy from the stalls you need and walk straight past the others. Each card names a rate of its own, counted per unit and billed by the month, and it all lands as one invoice. A stall board explains each card: the job it does, the rate it carries, and where it stops being any use.
An agent on each machine, one joined up picture of the business, and analysts who deal with it rather than mailing you a graph on Monday.
Say no first, on the machines that count the money. Approved software runs and the rest is never asked for an opinion.
Protection living in the mailbox your suppliers write to, and drill for whoever pays them.
Kit that stays up to date, browsing that is filtered, Apple hardware held to a standard, and phones with somebody minding them.
Locate the card numbers and the customer records first. Governing a folder that nobody has found is not possible.
Copies kept somewhere other than the system they came from, and restores proven instead of presumed.
Some sellers like to imply the whole apparatus was dreamed up in a room of their own. It was not dreamed up in ours. Standing behind CommerceGuard Tech is a shelf of commercial products, each one picked because it copes when a business is busy, licensed by Fortify 24x7, and minded through the day by its engineers. Something with a name on it and a number to ring beats an unexplained box, every single time.
Software that sits on a machine, works out what a program is really up to, then acts on that before anyone here has to ask. Nodes as well as tills.
Where the separate feeds meet. One login, one mail event, one process running on a laptop: three unrelated notes until they become a single account of an evening.
Says no first. Approvals, ringfencing, and elevation on whichever machines you decided could not afford a surprise.
Lives inside the tenant on an API connection. Mailbox-level API protection, and no, it is not a gateway.
Put it on a machine and it answers the dull questions. What is this, is it up to date, is it in good health, and can somebody mend it from a distance.
Whatever is Apple in the estate, held to a configuration instead of politely asked to follow one.
Judgement running on the handset itself, about apps installed on it, networks it joins, and links that arrive on it.
Reads the folders for card numbers and personal records, scores whatever turns up, then encrypts it without shifting it anywhere.
Copies of disks, of files, and of a Microsoft tenant, kept somewhere other than the thing they were taken from.
Three copies to its name: a Workspace tenant, an Entra ID directory, and the ledger that lives in QuickBooks Online.
No committee is needed anywhere in this. A fortnight usually sees a business covered and quiet, and what drags is the tuning rather than the fitting.
A call, and a count. Tills, laptops, servers, mailboxes, handsets, cloud tenants, and which of those sit anywhere near a payment. Guessing at this stage is what costs money later, so the extra twenty minutes is worth spending.
Installers go out for each machine line, enrolment links beside them, plus the authorisation links for any cloud tenant in scope. Most of it fits between customers.
First time round, the scan and the copy each have to cover your whole scope, and that part is slow. Leave hardware powered up overnight where you can. Afterwards only what changed gets moved.
The allowlist closes. Filters pick up their exceptions. Schedules are matched against what you really keep. A few brief conversations with us belong here.
Alerts come to our desk rather than to yours. Everything you pay for, every installer cut for you, and every slip you have raised sits in the trader account.
Security is sold badly more often than it is sold well. Here is the short list of what this catalogue does not do, on the front page rather than four clicks down.
Each figure below comes off the billing scales, so the number on your screen is what the card gets asked for. Lift whatever you want into the basket and keep reading. A count survives the walk round the stall boards.
They cover tills, laptops, and cluster nodes, and they arrive at three depths of how far we go in for you once something starts moving. Six cards in all.
On the machines that count money, software runs only where somebody approved it first. One card.
Protection living inside the mailbox, and drill for whoever approves the payments going out of it. Two cards.
Kit kept current, browsing kept sensible, Apple hardware held to a standard, and handsets with a minder. Four cards.
Card one locates the records. Card two rules on what anybody may do with them.
Machines, servers, the cloud tenants, the ledger, and evidence that a restore does what it claims. Nine cards.
Heads up: card statements show FORTIFY 24X7 - CommerceGuard Tech is a Fortify 24x7 brand, and your subscription is billed by Fortify 24x7.