Free. What you have, what worries you, and whether this is the right thing for a business your size. If it is not, I will say so and you will have lost twenty minutes.
The server is built, agents are rolled out to your machines, everything is tested and reporting. Usually a day or two on site.
Two to three weeks of adjustment so the alerts reflect how your business actually works. This is the part that decides whether you will still be using it next year.
Your people are shown how to read the dashboard, what to act on, what to ignore, and who to call. Written down, so it survives staff changes.
I look at it every month, tune what needs tuning, and send you a report in plain language. Cancel any time.
A managed security service will quote a small business $3,000 to $5,000 a month. Running this properly in-house means hiring an engineer. Neither is realistic for a firm with fifteen computers.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment | Free | One conversation, no obligation, an honest answer including no |
| Installation on your own hardware | $2,500 | My work only — you provide the machine. Platform, agents, two to three weeks of tuning, training, written handover. No sales tax: this is labour. |
| Monitoring server | $1,800 | The machine on its own: off-lease HP ProLiant, built and tested, Wazuh pre-installed, warranted 24 months. New York sales tax applies — this is equipment. |
| Server and installation together | $3,900 | The server at $1,800 plus the discounted installation at $2,100. Buying the two separately would be $4,300, so this saves you $400. Tax applies to the server only. |
| Monthly review | $400 / month | Sold in three-month blocks of $1,200. Stop whenever you like. No sales tax. |
| Consulting | $180 / hour | Half day on site $720. No sales tax. |
Because you should be able to check my arithmetic. The server costs what the server costs; my work costs what my work costs; and when you buy both at once I do the job in one visit and pass the saving on. Nothing is buried.
Final price depends on how many machines you have and how complicated your network is. The conversation is free and I will quote a fixed figure before any work starts.