Need enterprise cybersecurity?
But on an SME budget?

If you are an SME of 10 to 100 users with your board, regulators, or contracts mandating a 24/7 SOC, and you can't even afford a full NOC, then you have come to the right place.

Our non-stop, 24/7 SOC, manned by Certified Humans™, delivers millisecond isolation and sub-5-minute callback.

Meanwhile, you focus on running your business.
This is Real security in your Real world, at a true SME price.

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The Building Blocks of an Enterprise SOC

Six service offerings to deliver one objective. Secure operations that you can afford.

Each component is delivered as an infrastructure-free service, augmenting your in-house IT or delivering a comprehensive SOCaaS, in just days.

Threats don't keep office hours. Neither do we.

For as few as 10 users, we provide a fully managed 24/7 Security Operations Center powered by WatchGuard's award-winning SOC and Cyber Suite MDR, NDR, XDR, and SaaS. You can add optional MFA, EPDR, and patch management. We detect and contain threats around the clock, and go live across your estate in seven days.

Ask about SOCaaS

Lead your security with clarity.

Regulations require a security executive reporting to your board, but not always a full-time hire. We provide a certified one, backed by cyber and GRC professionals with 40+ years of board-level experience, to shape strategy and prove compliance on a scalable retainer that grows with your business.

Ask about Fractional CISO

What you don't see can hurt you.

Annual testing is no longer acceptable for ISO 27001 or NIST SP 800-171 r3 compliance. Our CTEM scans your IP, web, APIs, and DNS daily against OWASP, ISO, NIST, GDPR, and PCI standards, fusing multiple feeds into one unified likelihood-and-risk view, agentless and always on.

Ask about Vulnerability Assessment

Compliance isn't a checkbox; it's a strategy.

ISO 27001 and NIST SP 800-171 r3 now demand continuous assessment, which is a significant cost to small businesses. Our assessment and support services relieve you of that burden: within days we deliver a readiness and remediation plan, and a SaaS data and risk view from endpoint to supplier in 48 hours; within weeks you're remediated and compliant.

Ask about RMF Readiness

ISO 42001 for AI

We make sure your AI works for you and no one else, ensuring that data does not leak or escape. Following established frameworks, we discover what you're really running and implement operational governance. Pure discovery integrated into your ISMS and selected RMF.

Ask about AI Governance

Enhanced Intelligence as a Service

Harnessing AIs helps small businesses stay ahead of their competition without the risks associated with public cloud and AI providers. Our proprietary air-gapped, GenAI construct lets you select the standards, controls, limits, and data sources. The intelligence is yours alone, never exposed, and always cost-controlled.

Ask about EIaaS
Who are our customers?

We are here for the organizations the
big vendors deliberately price out.

The Tier-1 vendors really don’t want SME-sized customers —
that’s obvious from the entry-level licensing.

We do, because we are one, and we speak your language.

We give you the oversight the Tier-1s get, and it’s sized for your budget.

  • Security pulling focus from the business?

    You run a business, not a SOC. Hand us the watch, and get back to running yours.

  • Who's watching while you sleep?

    Real analysts, using Tier-1 tools, on a real clock: sub-5-minute response, 24 hours a day, every day.

  • Regulators and contracts demanding controls?

    We get you aligned to ISO or NIST RMFs and keep you there with real-time visibility.

  • Need enterprise cover on a real budget?

    Averaging $1.5m to build and $1m to run, in-house SOCs are not viable for SMEs. Outsourcing is a fraction of that. Is there a better way for an SME?

Where we’ve done it

  • Trigger. Changes to regulatory reporting requiring SOC, Threat Intelligence, and Incident Response for cloud servers and a mobile workforce.

    What we did. Implemented WatchGuard’s SOC, MDR, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Root Cause and Compliance monitoring.

    Outcome. Successful SPRS submission.

    Time to live. Within 15 days.

  • Trigger. Annual performance review by a donor bank for a country’s national vendor registration and procurement systems.

    What we did. Full vulnerability assessment for six government electronic procurement systems for the donor bank.

    Outcome. Vulnerabilities remediated and systems standardized.

    Time to live. 5 days.

  • Trigger. Cybersecurity risks identified by ISO auditors, with no in-house skill resources.

    What we did. Implemented DNS best practices, M365 security controls, and established public asset vulnerability assessment and monitoring.

    Outcome. CISO board risk reporting and a continuous risk score.

    Time to live. 7 days.

Our clients run from the US west coast to New Zealand. We cover them 24/7. We work anywhere not subject to United Nations sanctions. Our delivery is cloud-based and location independent.

Why us? We’re an SME too.
We built this for us — and for you.

Our SOCaaS, vCISO, Vulnerability and RMF Monitoring, AI Governance, and Enhanced AI are all modular solutions.

Open standards mean no legacy debt and rapid integration.
Our wide industry experience in operations and risk gives you a complete SOC view of your posture in just 7 days.

Meet ~40%of ISO 27001 and NIST
SP800-171 controls
Add ~38%more using our VA, RMF, and SaaS Monitoring
7 daysto onboard with live visibility
See how
Live in seven days

From first call to full visibility in a week.

Our onboarding is pure cloud and streamlined. Tell us your user, device, and server count, and let's get started.

  1. Day 1

    Assess

    We scope your estate and the gaps that matter.

  2. Day 2

    Price

    A fixed price to deliver for up to 3 years. No surprises.

  3. Days 3–4

    Deploy

    Your SOC, monitoring, alerts, and dashboards go live.

  4. Days 5–6

    Tune

    Set thresholds, triggers, and compliance evidence packs.

  5. Day 7

    Live

    Full visibility, 24/7 coverage, and your first board report in hand.

Start your seven days
Inception's specialist teams
Leadership

Certified leaders, a hands-on team.

With careers spanning over 45 years and 50+ countries, our senior team's expertise spans from IT, security, telecoms, military, and law enforcement to airports, power, oil, gas, and mining.

We have delivered United Nations humanitarian, health, and education projects across Africa, ASEAN, and the Pacific.

Everyone, from the board to our interns, is certified to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) by the US Department of Defense, because we take data security seriously.

Our founder and Chief Executive Officer also holds the CISO role, and is named and reachable. We do not identify other staff without an NDA or contract in place: our security is your security.

Credentials

Registered and recognized.

Vetted and listed where it counts for enterprise procurement and government public bids.

Standards we work to

Published, auditable requirements

Best practices we follow

Frameworks, guides, and baselines
  • OWASPApplication security guidelines
  • CIS BenchmarksConfiguration baselines for network devices and Microsoft 365
  • SANSNetwork security guidance and practice

Where our people certify

Vendor-neutral certification bodies
  • ISC2Cybersecurity certification and training
  • EC-CouncilEthical hacking and digital forensics certification
  • CompTIAVendor-neutral technology credentialing

The principles we run on.

Confidentiality

Your and your clients’ information always stays secure. Our design is built for this: encryption, verified identity, and multi-factor based least-privilege access by default.

Integrity

Your data stays accurate, consistent, and protected from unauthorized change, so the information you make decisions on is the information we recorded.

Availability

Truly 24/7, and staffed. Not an inbox that auto-replies with office hours. First response in under 5 minutes, critical threats isolated in under 10 milliseconds, contained fast.

Our practice runs on what we sell. This site is proof.

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Do you need 24/7 security monitoring? Do you need a Managed SOC without the headcount? Is a fractional CISO what your board is asking for? Do your contracts demand ISO 27001 or NIST SP800-171? Do you need continuous vulnerability management? Does your AI use need ISO 42001 governance? Do you need MDR without a security team? Can SOC as a service work on an SME budget?

Answered yes to five or more?

Then it's time to give us a call.

We are ready when you are.

Tell us what keeps you up at night. We will show you how quiet it can be.

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