CYBERSECURITY SERVICES

Cybersecurity Services for Montana Businesses

Granite Tech protects Montana businesses from ransomware, phishing, and insider threats with managed cybersecurity, employee training, email security, endpoint protection, and compliance support. Built around how your business actually operates.

8+

Compliance Frameworks

1,200+

Businesses Protected

5x

MSP501 Winner

22+

Years in Montana

WHY CYBERSECURITY MATTERS NOW

Cyber Threats Don’t Care About Company Size or Zip Code

Small and mid-sized businesses across Montana are under attack. Ransomware operators target medical practices in Bozeman. Phishing campaigns hit law firms in Missoula. Business email compromise drains accounting offices in Kalispell. The attackers don’t read demographics. They look for unpatched systems, untrained employees, and vendors without proper documentation.

Your cyber insurance carrier is asking harder questions every renewal. Your clients are asking whether you can protect their data. Your compliance auditor wants documented controls, not a security checklist someone copy-pasted from the internet. Granite Tech delivers the cybersecurity stack Montana businesses actually need: trained employees, hardened systems, monitored networks, and a written security program your auditor and your insurance carrier will actually accept.

THREAT REALITY

The Threats Hitting Montana Businesses Today

These aren’t theoretical. These are the attacks our team is actively defending against right now across the Mountain West.

CRITICAL THREAT

Ransomware

Attackers encrypt your business data and demand payment in cryptocurrency. Recovery without backups can take weeks. Recovery with the wrong backups can mean permanent data loss.

HIGH FREQUENCY

Phishing & Spoofing

Fake emails impersonating banks, vendors, and executives. The goal is harvested passwords, fraudulent wire transfers, or malware delivery. One employee click is all it takes.

RISING THREAT

Business Email Compromise

Attackers hijack a legitimate email account or spoof an executive’s address to redirect wire transfers, change vendor payment details, or extract sensitive employee data.

OFTEN OVERLOOKED

Insider Threats

Departing employees with active accounts. Disgruntled staff with privileged access. Well-meaning team members downloading risky software. Internal access misused causes serious damage fast.

SUPPLY CHAIN RISK

Vendor Compromise

Your vendor’s breach becomes your breach. Compromised software updates, exposed third-party APIs, and weak vendor security posture put your data at risk through trusted connections.

FAST EVOLVING

Social Engineering

Phone calls, text messages, and AI-generated voice clones impersonating leadership or trusted contacts. The attacker manipulates a person, not a system, to bypass your technical defenses.

CORE SERVICES

Cybersecurity Services We Deliver

A full cybersecurity stack designed for Montana small and mid-sized businesses. Each service is delivered, monitored, and documented by Granite Tech’s local team.

Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Quarterly micro-trainings, tailored security awareness programs, and ongoing phishing simulations. Turn employees from your weakest link into your first line of defense.

Trained employees stop attacks

Email Security

Spam filtering, anti-phishing, business email compromise protection, and email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) configured and monitored on your domain.

Stop threats at the inbox

Endpoint Security

Managed endpoint protection on workstations, laptops, and servers. Configuration baselines, antivirus, threat detection, and response handled by Granite Tech’s team.

Hardened devices reduce risk

Phishing Protection

Real-time phishing detection, employee phishing simulations, reporting workflows, and incident response when an employee falls for an attack.

Reduce successful attacks

Vendor Security Posture

Critical vendor risk assessments, vendor inventory management, and ongoing monitoring of the third parties with access to your data and systems.

Manage supply chain risk

Insider Threat Management

Standardized offboarding, decision rights documentation, access management, and monitoring for unusual internal activity that signals risk.

Control internal access

Security Risk Management

Risk assessments, gap analysis, written information security programs (WISP), and ongoing review against industry frameworks.

Documented risk posture

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Tested backups, off-site replication, and documented disaster recovery plans so a ransomware attack doesn’t become a business-ending event.

Recover without paying

Compliance Support

HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, FERPA, SOC 2, CMMC, CJIS, NIST. We map your environment to the framework your industry actually answers to.

Pass your next audit
COMPLIANCE & REGULATORY

Compliance Frameworks We Build Around

Cybersecurity isn’t generic. Every regulated industry has its own framework, its own audit cycle, and its own consequences for getting it wrong. Granite Tech aligns deployments to the framework that matters to your business.

HIPAA

Healthcare

Patient data protection, secure messaging, audit logging, and EHR-compatible network design for medical and dental practices.

PCI DSS

Payment Processing

Network segmentation, secure point-of-sale systems, and cardholder data protection for retail, hospitality, and dealerships.

GLBA

Financial Services

Customer data protection, encryption, secure messaging, and risk management for banks, credit unions, and financial firms.

FERPA

Education

Student record protection, secure systems, and access controls for schools, districts, and educational organizations.

SOC 2

SaaS & B2B

Security controls, access management, and audit support for businesses that need to demonstrate trust to enterprise customers.

CMMC

Defense Contractors

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification readiness for Montana businesses serving the defense supply chain.

CJIS

Law Enforcement

Criminal Justice Information Services compliance for local government agencies handling sensitive case data.

NIST

Government & Critical

NIST cybersecurity framework alignment for government agencies, utilities, and critical infrastructure operators.

PROACTIVE FRAMEWORK

Healthy Business Security Reviews

Most cybersecurity programs are reactive. Granite Tech’s Healthy Business framework is documented, scheduled, and built to mature over time.

GRANITE TECH METHODOLOGY

A Documented Security Program, Not a Checklist

The Healthy Business Security Review isn’t a one-time audit. It’s an ongoing program that documents your environment, identifies risks, builds a roadmap, and reviews progress at scheduled intervals. Your auditor sees documentation. Your insurance carrier sees a program. Your board sees a maturing security posture.

Risk assessments Written security program Vendor inventory Living policy library Quarterly reviews Audit-ready documentation
Explore the Healthy Business Framework
CUSTOMER STORIES

Trusted by Montana Businesses

FAQ

Cybersecurity FAQ

Common questions about cybersecurity services from Granite Tech.

Cybersecurity pricing depends on company size, industry, compliance requirements, and the controls already in place. A basic stack with awareness training, email security, and endpoint protection runs differently than a full HIPAA-aware program with quarterly reviews. We start with a security assessment, then build a recommendation around what your business actually needs. Reach out for a no-pressure conversation.

Yes. We design cybersecurity deployments around HIPAA for healthcare, GLBA and PCI DSS for financial services, FERPA for education, SOC 2 for SaaS and B2B, CMMC for defense contractors, CJIS for law enforcement, and NIST for government and critical infrastructure. Our team understands the documentation, audit trails, and security controls these industries require.

We start with a discovery conversation about your business, your industry, your current security tools, and your concerns. From there, we run a structured assessment of your environment: endpoints, email, network, vendors, access controls, and existing documentation. The output is a written report identifying risks and a recommended roadmap to address them. No pressure to move forward unless the recommendations make sense for your business.

Yes. Cyber insurance carriers ask increasingly detailed questions at renewal time, and the wrong answers can mean denied coverage or much higher premiums. We help Montana businesses understand what their carrier is actually asking for, deploy the missing controls, and document their security program in a way that supports favorable renewal terms.

Yes. We deliver tailored security awareness training, quarterly micro-trainings, and ongoing phishing simulations. Training is matched to your industry, your roles, and the threats your business actually faces. Most cyber breaches start with an employee click, so training is one of the highest-impact investments you can make.

Cybersecurity has gotten too complex for a one or two-person internal IT team to handle alone. We work as a co-managed cybersecurity partner, augmenting your internal team with specialized expertise, 24/7 monitoring, and access to the tooling and processes that are difficult to maintain in-house. Your IT person stays in the driver’s seat. We bring depth on the specialized areas they don’t have time to cover.

Call 406-505-5061 or book a conversation. We start with a no-pressure conversation about your business, your industry, your current security posture, and what’s keeping you up at night. From there, we’ll recommend a path forward that fits your business.

Ready to Strengthen Your Security Posture?

A no-pressure conversation about your current cybersecurity, your compliance requirements, and what’s keeping you up at night. We’ll show you what a documented program looks like.

Get a Security Assessment

Bozeman Office
201 Evergreen Dr., Suite A
Bozeman, MT 59715
406-505-5061

Missoula Office
1600 North Ave W. Suite 108
Missoula, MT 59801
406-500-6312

Kalispell Office
555 Corporate Dr. Suite 206
Kalispell, MT 59901
406-308-5705

Helena Office
Brick and Mortar coming soon
406-518-0673