Sensitive material in a small firm is hardly ever where the policy claims. It is in an old export on a desktop, in an attachment saved to open later, in a spreadsheet built for one job in 2019 and never thrown away. These two lines locate it first and rule on it second.
That first reading is frequently the most useful hour of a whole rollout. Not because the numbers are alarming, although they often are, but because they are specific. A named machine with a count against it is something a manager can act on. A general unease about data protection is not.
Putting a figure beside each machine turns unease into a queue. You work down from the machine holding the most awkward material to the one holding least, and you stop where the remaining risk is small enough to live beside. That is a plan, and it is the reason the measuring line can sensibly be bought first.
Material does not leave by the front door. It leaves through a browser upload somebody used because the share was crawling, through a personal cloud folder, through a stick in a drawer, and through a message to a home address sent at twenty past six.
Route governance works at the program, which is where those exits actually sit. Locking sits underneath it, so material that does get out is unreadable to whoever ends up holding it. Neither is turned to full strength on the first day, because a rule fitted blind will stop somebody doing the job you pay them for.
Every figure below leaves billing at the moment this page opens. Anything laid on the service card sits waiting there while you carry on reading.
One word in the tables below needs pinning down. Certified by names the person who did the work and put their name beside it, which is how a watchmaker certifies a service. It carries no claim that Fortify 24x7 holds a security certification, and buying a line confers none on your business either.
Looking after something starts with finding it. This line reads over hardware and shares, works out where personal detail and card numbers have settled, and puts a figure on each machine, so tidying follows an order and not a mood.
| Serviced on | Windows hardware and whichever shares that hardware can reach |
|---|---|
| Regulates | Nothing yet. This line takes the measurement the next line acts upon |
| Interval | One full read first, then repeat reads on the rhythm you agree |
| Adjusted by | You name the shares, we set the profiles that decide what counts |
| Certified by | Findings carry a date per machine and the report is yours to keep |
This is the half with teeth. Whatever the reading identified gets locked where it sits, and exits are governed one program at a time rather than by a hopeful paragraph in a handbook nobody has reopened since induction.
| Serviced on | Windows hardware already carrying the reading line |
|---|---|
| Regulates | Which programs may move sensitive material, and whether it travels readable |
| Interval | Held tight continuously, once a rule set moves from watching to biting |
| Adjusted by | You sign off each rule set before it bites, and we stage it department by department |
| Certified by | Every locking and every refused route is entered against the device |
Each of the six sheets carries a block like this one. It is the section most suppliers quietly omit, and it is the section that settles whether you feel let down in a year.
Heads up: card statements show FORTIFY 24X7 - ServiceTrust Cyber is a Fortify 24x7 brand, and your subscription is billed by Fortify 24x7.