Network security · Quebec businesses

Your network has a door for everyone. The question is who decides what comes through.

Q: What is the difference with network management?

Network management keeps the network running. Network security decides what is allowed through it.

Q: Can you manage this alongside our IT team?

Yes. Co-managed arrangements are common: your team keeps the environment, we take the boundary.

Remote staff, public applications, suppliers with access, offices that need to talk to each other. Every one of those is a way in, and most businesses added them one at a time without anyone stepping back to look at the whole.

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Managed firewall Business VPN Web application protection DDoS mitigation

The real problem

Network security is rarely designed. It accumulates.

Each piece was added for a good reason. Together they have never been looked at as one system.

Rules nobody remembers writing

A temporary opening from three years ago, for a supplier who no longer works with you.

Remote access that grew sideways

A VPN for some people, a shared password for others, and a remote desktop somebody opened once.

Public applications with no shield

A web application facing the internet is attacked continuously, whether or not anyone is watching.

No single owner

The firewall belongs to one provider, the applications to another, and the gap between them to nobody.

What it actually costs

What the gaps cost when they are used

These are not hypothetical failure modes. These are common ways attackers gain access to SMB networks.

Access that should have been closed

A credential that still works, through a door that should have been shut when the contract ended.

An application taken offline

A public service that stops answering takes your revenue with it for as long as it is down.

An incident nobody saw coming

Boundary equipment logs the event. Without someone reading it, the log is an archive, not an alert.

None of this requires rebuilding your network. It requires someone deciding what the rules should be, and keeping them that way.

Our solution

What we manage

Four capabilities, and most businesses need two of them rather than four.

Managed firewall

The boundary rules, reviewed rather than accumulated: what is allowed in, what is allowed out, and what was opened temporarily and never closed.

Rules · Review · Segmentation

Business VPN

Remote access that is one controlled path instead of several improvised ones, with access tied to people rather than to a shared password.

Remote access · Sites · Suppliers

Web application protection (WAF)

A filter in front of a public application, aimed at the attacks that target it specifically rather than the network around it.

Public applications · Filtering

DDoS mitigation

Absorbing a flood aimed at making your service unreachable, so that availability stops depending on how much traffic someone decides to send you.

Availability · Public services

What you gain

What changes

Six outcomes, and the first one is the one that makes the rest possible.

One accountable owner

The boundary stops being split between three providers.

Rules that get reviewed

On a schedule, not after an incident.

Remote access that is one path

Instead of four, three of which nobody documented.

Public applications defended

Specifically, rather than by the network around them.

Availability that holds

Your service stays reachable when someone tries otherwise.

Answers for the questionnaire

Documented controls, when a client or insurer asks.

Why CyberVision

Why CyberVision 24/7

The reasons our clients give.

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Local rootsTerrebonne, Lanaudière, Greater Montreal: a team that can come to you.

Defined response timesResponse commitments written into the agreement, not promised verbally.

A human, bilingual teamYou talk to people who know your file, in French or in English.

Network and cybersecurity under one roofThe people who manage the network are the people who manage the rest of it.

How it works

How an engagement starts

We look before we propose. The first step regularly shortens the second.

What you have today

Equipment, rules, remote access paths and public exposure — documented as it is, not as it was intended.

What you actually need

Most businesses need two of the four capabilities. We say which, and why the others can wait.

Implementation

Changes staged so that nothing goes dark, with the rules written down as they are made.

Management and review

The rules get revisited on a schedule, and someone reads what the equipment reports.

Our commitments

Clear commitments, from day one

Written into the agreement before anything starts.

Scope defined up frontWhat is managed and what is not, in writing, before the first change.

Documentation stays yoursYour configurations and your access. You remain the owner, including if you leave.

One accountable contactA single person who knows your environment end to end.

FAQ

Your questions, answered

Do we need all four?

Almost certainly not. Without a public web application, a WAF is rarely useful. DDoS mitigation depends more on what must stay reachable: remote VPN access, IP telephony or an Internet connection your operations rely on can also be targeted. The first conversation is about which two matter for you.

What is the difference with network management?

Network management keeps the network running — connectivity, Wi-Fi coverage, monitoring, equipment. Network security decides what is allowed through it. Related jobs, different questions, and we do both.

Do you replace our existing firewall?

Not by default. If what you have does the job, the work is in the rules and the review rather than in a purchase. We will tell you when the equipment is genuinely the limit.

What is SD-WAN, and do we need it?

It is a way of connecting several sites over ordinary internet links while keeping control of how traffic is routed. It is worth it when you have multiple locations or heavy cloud use, and it is over-engineering when you have one office. See our full guide to SD-WAN.

Can you manage this alongside our IT team?

Yes. Co-managed arrangements are common here: your team keeps the environment, we take the boundary.

Who watches the alerts?

That is the question worth asking any provider, including us. Equipment that logs an event at 2 a.m. has done its job only if someone reads it.

Go further

Not sure which of the four you actually need?

30 minutes to look at what you have, what you expose, and which two capabilities would change the most — including if the answer is that your current setup is fine.

Appointment

Book your discovery call

Pick the time slot that suits you. A Quebec-based expert calls you back to look at your network.

30 minutes, no obligation
Video call or phone
Quebec-based team
A clear scope, no surprises

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