Device & Network Hardening
Hands-on configuration of your home network and family devices — router, Wi-Fi, laptops, phones and tablets — locked down to a sensible baseline.
Knowing the front door is unlocked helps nobody if it stays unlocked. This is the hands-on version: we do the work, on your devices, with you there.
That means changing the default credentials your router almost certainly still has, turning off the remote-management features it almost certainly still exposes, keeping the smart devices away from the computers holding your tax returns, switching on disk encryption, and getting two-factor authentication onto the accounts where losing access would actually ruin a week — email, banking, and whichever account can reset all the others.
We also set up backups that run on their own, because a backup that depends on somebody remembering is not a backup.
Prices reflect the time these engagements normally take. Where a service is priced by size, pick the tier matching whichever part of the description is larger for you — a small house with a great many devices belongs in the higher tier. If what we find on the day goes beyond the tier you picked, we will tell you before starting and agree any additional time with you first. We never bill for extra time you have not agreed to.
How it works
Inventory
We list what is actually on your network. This step routinely turns up devices people had forgotten were connected.
The work
Router, Wi-Fi, computers, phones and tablets configured to a sensible baseline, with you watching so nothing is a mystery afterwards.
Handover
A short written record of what changed and why, including anything worth keeping an eye on.