Service · Southern California

When ransomware comes for your business, we're already in the way.

Every 11 seconds, a business gets hit with ransomware. The average attack costs millions and drags on for 22 days of downtime — and most businesses never fully recover. Tech Bodyguard exists because your business deserves a fighting chance, not a ransom note. We build defense around how attackers actually operate, across Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and the Inland Empire.

// In brief
  • Tech Bodyguard delivers ransomware defense in three layers: prevent (EDR, email filtering, training), detect (24/7 SOC monitoring and threat hunting), and recover (immutable backups, tested playbooks, incident response retainer).
  • The free 15-minute Ransomware Reality Check scores your readiness across 20 categories and returns a letter grade with your three highest-priority fixes.
  • You get a named security engineer and a real Security Operations Center — not an anonymous ticket queue or a remote-only vendor in another time zone.
The discipline

Prevent · Detect · Recoverone mission.

Prevent

We lock the doors before attackers reach them.

Endpoint detection and response, email filtering, disciplined patch management, security awareness training, and dark web credential monitoring close the entry points attackers rely on. Prevention costs a fraction of recovery, so we invest here first and hardest.

Detect

We see attacks in progress, not after.

A 24/7 Security Operations Center pairs behavioral analytics with human threat hunting to catch intrusions in the hours-long window between initial access and encryption. Most ransomware is stoppable if someone is watching — and most MSPs aren't.

Recover

If the worst happens, you're back online in hours, not weeks.

Immutable, geographically separated backups, tested recovery playbooks, an incident response retainer, and cyber insurance coordination turn a catastrophe into a disruption. We rehearse the recovery before you ever need it, so the bad day is one you've already practiced.

What we cover

Everything ransomware defenseactually requires.

Managed Detection & Response (MDR)

24/7 monitored EDR that isolates compromised endpoints automatically and escalates live threats to human analysts.

Application Allowlisting & Ransomware Blocking

Only approved software runs. Unknown executables and ransomware behaviors are blocked before they can detonate.

Email Security & Attachment Sandboxing

Inbound attachments and links are detonated in isolation, stopping phishing and malware at the most common entry point.

Dark Web Credential Monitoring

We watch breach dumps and dark web markets for your leaked credentials and force resets before they can be used against you.

Security Awareness Training

Ongoing simulated phishing and role-based training turn your team from the softest target into an active sensor.

Incident Response Retainer & Runbooks

Documented, tested playbooks and an on-call IR team so the first hour of an incident is rehearsed, not improvised.

Immutable Backups

Air-gapped, tamper-proof backups that ransomware can't encrypt or delete — the foundation of a real recovery.

MFA & Privileged Access Hygiene

Multi-factor everywhere and least-privilege admin design shut down the credential theft most attacks depend on.

The problem we solve

What makes ransomware so dangerous for SoCal businesses?

Small and mid-sized businesses are the primary target of modern ransomware, not an afterthought — and most are defended like it's still 2015.

Every 11s

a business is hit by a ransomware attack

Source: Cybersecurity Ventures
$4.5M

average cost of a data breach

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach
22 days

average downtime after a ransomware attack

Source: Coveware
43%

of cyberattacks target small and mid-sized businesses

Our approach

How a ransomware defense engagementactually runs.

01

Ransomware Reality Check

A free 15-minute assessment scores your defenses across 20 categories and returns a letter grade with three prioritized recommendations — no obligation, no sales call required.

02

Protection Audit & Hardening

We go deep on endpoints, identity, email, and backups, then close the gaps: EDR/MDR rollout, MFA enforcement, immutable backups, and email sandboxing — with written scope and fixed price.

03

24/7 Stand Watch

Ongoing SOC monitoring, threat hunting, quarterly backup restore tests, and a named engineer on your account, with an incident response retainer ready before you ever need it.

// Free · No sales call

Ransomware Reality Check

A free, 15-minute self-assessment that scores your ransomware readiness across 20 questions and returns a personalized PDF report with a letter grade (A–F) and three prioritized recommendations — sent within 24 hours.

Take the Reality Check
Recovery story
Professional Services
Four-hour recovery after a Friday-night encryption event

A professional services firm was hit with human-operated ransomware that encrypted its primary file servers overnight.

Immutable backups and a rehearsed runbook had critical systems restored and staff working again within four hours — no ransom paid, no data lost.

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Common questions

Ransomware Defense questionsworth asking.

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Find out where your defenses actually stand.

Tell us about your business. We'll send you the Ransomware Reality Check, a personalized report with a letter grade and the three things to fix first. No sales call required — though we're glad to discuss the results when you're ready.

15-minute assessment
Personalized PDF report
Sent within 24 hours
No sales obligation

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