Who We Are

Dip your toes into the essence of Camat Solutions, where we strip away the excess and emphasize what truly matters in IT services: tangible results, streamlined simplicity, and decisions driven by hard data. We’re not just another name in the pool of IT providers. We’re the vanguard for a pragmatic, results-orientated approach that positions your business firmly at the intersection of security and efficiency, without compromising the depth of either. At Camat Solutions, the prevailing question isn’t 'How innovative?' but 'How effective?'
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Our mantra is security first, support as a last resort. This isn’t about adding layers of complexity or accumulating tools for the sake of appearances. It is about cutting through the noise, discerning value amidst the vast sea of IT information. Uncovering gems by eliminating the unnecessary, rather than attempting to disguise the inadequate.
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Why choose a path that is littered with unnecessary expenses and hurdles? Camat Solutions requests you to embrace a partnership founded on clarity, efficiency, and reliability. We fortify your digital presence with strategies so solid you’ll wonder why they are so simple. Take your business one more step forward with an IT service that is all about substance. Where your infrastructure isn’t just maintained, but mastered.
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Click next to explore how we can elevate your business with our back-to-basics, results-driven approach. The future of IT is clear, straightforward, and waiting for you.

Multifactor Authetication

Let’s bypass the firewall, hack the mainframe, and trick their polymorphic encryption defense system…Oh no! They have multifactor authentication, abort mission, I repeat, abort mission. Sometimes you can’t tell what real security measures are and which ones are fluff. You hear a lot about multifactor authentication in the news, online, and other sources. You may also hear MFA (multifactor authentication) being referred to as 2FA (two factor authentication). While there are many ways to talk about authentication and having multiple ways to verify it, the fact remains that it is one of the most critical aspects for securing digital services in this day and age.
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People use MFA in many ways, even if they do not know. When you go to the bank ATM, you have to present a card and put in a PIN to access your digital service (your bank account). This means you have to have something in your possession (bank card) and you must know something (the PIN). Have you been anywhere fancy that you were required to scan a tag to get into a secured area, but then also have to use a biometric reader made for your hand? This is yet another form of MFA at work. The MFA you might be the most familiar with at work, is the use of OTPs (one-time passwords). These are usually used in conjunction with something that you know (a password that you created). You know those pesky rotating numbers that change every 30 seconds? Yeah, those are OTPs.
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The biggest detractor from deploying MFA inside a business environment is usually convenience. While there is no way to 100% prevent a security incident from occurring, you can lower the attack surface and make yourself an undesirable target by taking advantage of up-to-date technologies and tactics. Having MFA by default is an easy to deploy defense mechanism that renders over 98% of attacks useless. Attackers have to find a way to bypass it to perform the attacks, usually by way of phishing attempts. Have a read through this article from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) about the importance of MFA.

Camat Solutions can show you how to deploy and maintain MFA including training for employees. Click contact us to book a meeting now to see if you’re a good fit for our program.
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User Education & Awareness

What is this email? Why do they need this information? Who is this person? Where did they get this information? When did this change? These are questions that should be commonplace with users. We refer to users and not employees because anyone who works with a business digital products or services, whether directly or indirectly, should be trained in awareness for potential threats. These are not the only questions to ask, it is merely exposure to a zero trust mindset.
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With the everchanging landscape of digital security and the rise of AI, it is going to make user education & awareness more important than ever. AI can generate content without spelling errors, it can replicate voices, and it can make you think you are talking to your coworker or boss.
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From having long passwords (they don't need to be confusing for a human to type), using password managers, reporting ALL suspicious emails, and verifying identities (even if they sound and type like your coworker) are some ways to make it easier for a user to be vigilant in detecting malicious activity. It is not enough to be aware and question other people, who is questioning you when you do things? This is why safe habits for engaging with digital services is important.
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We are all human, and with that, come mistakes. Training and tools that assist are not a one time or one size fits all solution. Your business needs constant training, continually updated processes, and up-to-date tools to ensure users can confidently question things, even if you have to question the big boss. There are two sides to this, who wants to question their boss when they receive a call, email, or text that seemed to have come from them and why would a boss want employees to question them on legitimate calls, emails, or texts they have sent?
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Have you asked yourself what your business does for ongoing cybersecurity training? Do all users get tested? Does your CEO and other
igh level managers practice an open-to-question stance to help reduce the chance of phishing? With phishing often exploiting hierarchical
and communication gaps in organizations, it is important to achieve a culture where employees feel empowered to question unusual or
suspicious requests (especially if they seemingly come from top executives).
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We can show you how to implement zero trust into your processes and develop training specifically for your business and industry.
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Click contact us to book a meeting to discuss this with us now.
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Security First IT Practices

         “I don’t want extra login steps. Give me administrator privileges. I don’t want to have to enter administrator credentials.”
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          - The user who doesn’t know when they are compromised
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Having security primarily in mind when dealing with any digital product or service should be the first thought when deploying any solution, process, or executing on current processes. While convenience is important, it should not be the main motivating factor. Most users value convenience over security, and with that, comes a lack of understanding on the importance of a strong cybersecurity posture. With proper education and training, users can get comfortable with a balance of security and convenience.

No attack surface is 100% covered, this is a myth, and anyone who tells you that they can guarantee safety is selling nothing more than IT snake oil. Security events that result in breaches are a when, not an if, and all businesses should be prepared in all of the areas you are reading about here.
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Camat Solutions maintains their standards by keeping up with updates to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a way to reduce the attack surface of your business. From NIST themselves:
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“This is what we use to help your business:
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Govern - This is considered the sixth core function, but it is meant to encompass all 5 core functions listed below. Helping you develop an understanding of how cybersecurity works and how it relates to your business. Strategically helping you utilize the tools you use that may present risk and how to reduce risk. Bringing all of the five core functions below to the surface so that every user in an organization is living in a transparent and accountable digital security landscape.
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Identify - Regular and ongoing checks to maintain your asset data, processes, information flows, hardware/software inventory, establishing policies, establishing any risks, vulnerabilities, or threats, and even helping to ensure roles and responsibilities are clearly defined.
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Protect - Once everything is documented and kept up to date and you have regular checks happening, you now need to decide the best course of action to protect yourself. How will you store your data? Who has access to it? What kind of protection do you need for each device? When and where will you train users? You also need to consider your backups, how are you protecting your data in the event of loss? This core function is meant to take care of all of that.
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Detect - We are protected now right? We have a process to identify and protect. That is very much only the start. Your business needs to constantly be working on improving their ways to detect security events. Regular processes to reviewing logs, and detection of events needs to be improved. Bad actors (bad guys) do not stop improving, so neither should you. Your business should also be prepared to share security events, should one happen, and without a proper impact analysis of events, you will be sharing incomplete information at best.
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Respond - You're here, something happened, but good thing you have a process in place to respond to security incidents. Because you have been so proactive, you can now be confident in sharing what has happened with internal and external parties. Everyone has a role to play in the response of an event that unfortunately has led to a security incident. Your processes for the respond core function should get updated regularly as new and better practices surface.
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Recover - The last core function, recovery, is your last line of defense to keep your business running, reduce cost, save reputation.
Ensuring your recovery plans are updated which would include how to communication, who to communicate with, and what to say, are crucial in the circle of life in the digital world. Remember when I said no attack surface is 100% covered? Being able to recover from an attack strengthens your ability to not have to negotiate with cyber-terrorists if it ever comes to that. Resilience is key.”

There are many ways to achieve this, here are some related slides but keep in mind, security is a non-exhaustive list ALWAYS. Contact us to book an appointment to see if you are a fit for our program today.
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Data Security & Password Management

BORING, can't you just protect my data for me? I use the same password for everything because we have an IT company, and they protect us.
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We would, and in part, we can. However, it is very important for all users to be aware and trained on data security practices. What should they do, what shouldn't they do are all things they need to know. I'll save you the technical jargon on how we do data security, but what remains is your business, and every user of it, should be protected from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft of your data.
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There are many ways to protect your data: Passwords, password-less services, rotating one-time passwords as a second factor of
authentication, training & awareness, encrypting your data at rest and in transit, auditing your practices regularly, assessing your risk on how you store data. There are no cookie cutter solutions, but there are some activities & solutions that are highly recommended to implement (like multifactor authentication).
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Having proper infrastructure and endpoint detection & response software is important. Reducing access so that only users who absolutely need access to something on a daily basis will have access. Someone having a title higher up in the hierarchy shouldn’t mean unfettered access to data. Building your data security practice at your business is something Camat Solutions can help you do, while being role neutral. There are ways to allow someone to gain access to data that they don't need regularly use even though their level of access should allow them to see it if they want (CEO). Let’s say a high-level user get compromised, there should also be another form of authentication in order to get to that next level of sensitive data that isn't readily available by clicking through their folders that are regularly available. This is why access control is important.
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What about handling of the data? Sure, your data is following all secure protocols while at work. What happens when someone decides to email that data? What if they put it on a USB to work on it on the go? These are all questions that matter based on the sensitivity of your data. Understanding what makes your data sensitive and what it can be used for is an important measure of training. Most users do not realize why certain information could be sensitive or how it could be used to get to sensitive data in your business.
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With the upcoming proposition of Bill C-27: An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (PIDPTA) and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts. How does this affect you and your business? You can see what state this bill is in by visiting this link here.

Talk to us, we will help you understand everything about your data security.
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Business Impact

               How is this impacting my business?
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              - Someone who asked too late
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This is the one question you need to ask BEFORE you have to deal with an event. When it is all said and done, the proactive work your business can do far outweighs the amount of work you will need to recover when your business is impacted.
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Understanding risks, vulnerabilities, and threats, help reduce business impact when it happens. Staying at the forefront of IT standards before they become law helps your business to not have to scramble. There are some laws in Canada that need to be adhered to already and we use a framework that covers all of these and more. If you have not read Security First IT Practices, please do. Business impact has a spot in every core function when preparing your business against digital threats.
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Have an expert on your side guiding you on how to best reduce your risk without using the catch all phrase "don't use this, it is bad". A wholesome approach starts with a list of risks and partnering with an expert to find out how crucial a tool or process is. Then working together to figure out the most secure way to usethe tool or follow a process. This approach eliminates the frustration of having to discontinue use of a tool or process without a replacement. Together we can figure out a way to make it work and understand the risk that is involved. It is your business and only you should decide what is best for it. This will help your business thrive in a risk filled digital world.
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One popular example is: “Well my vendor said I have to pay $30,000 to get that new machine in order to update that computer.” Great, so it is business critical, but you don't have the revenue to spend on a new machine yet. There are safety measures you can put in place, improvement to processes, and strategic plans that can be implemented to reduce the attack surface of a vulnerable system. Obviously the best course of action is to keep it updated or purchase the latest and greatest. Not every business has that luxury. We live in the real world and we will help you survive in it.

Business Continuity

The unfortunate happens, your business is crippled, or at a standstill. You have IT, so you're fine?...right?…RIGHT?
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Don't let the unfortunate happen to you unplanned. Having “IT” is not a guarantee an attack won’t happen to you, but the right “IT” will ensure you are prepared for the worst. Without a business continuity plan developed, in place, and trained for the unfortunate, you would be in the dark about how long it will take your business to get up and running again. Closely related to a business impact analysis, a business continuity plan creates a strategy that your company will action on in the event your business is impacted from the risks you have assessed. Along with having a plan, most business continuity plans have proactive strategies that pre-empt risk that has been identified in your business. This could come in the forms of redundancy planning, 2nd or 3rd layered accountability structures, and more.
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Disasters can come in many forms, it can come from nature, a bad actor (bad person attacking you for malicious intent or financial gain), employee fault (intentional or not), and even plain old failure of systems. A business continuity plan that is regularly updated on a schedule and not after an event has occurred, will help ensure you reduce the time it takes for your business to become operational again.
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Reach out to us about what it takes to have someone looking out for you, with an up-to-date plan.
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Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Welcome to the “do it for me” area of IT. A lot of businesses don’t want to learn or be involved with the infrastructure surrounding IT in their business. Even if this is you, it is crucial for you to understand everything that goes into your network and what it does. Infrastructure cybersecurity touches many areas, including ones you may have already read about in the articles here. Proper hardware is one of the first steps to ensure a proactive infrastructure cybersecurity setup. Other areas include, but are not limited to, how the network is setup, security for endpoints, threat detection for hardware, employee training & awareness on how to use and operate IT equipment, configurations of the devices without impacting the operability of the business, and even physical access to these devices.
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Infrastructure Cybersecurity is a comprehensive area, and it requires expert knowledge to be able to achieve best practices in all of these areas. Some other areas that dive a little deeper are things like active threat hunting which is very different than automated threat detection. Some hardware does not have the capability to install threat detection software and you must solely rely on behavioral traits, like what traffic is coming and going to a device, to know if it is compromised in some way.
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Talk to us by clicking contact us to find out about what this means to you. A proper business impact assessment is required to know where you would benefit most.
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Cloud Security

The mysterious cloud, what is it, where is it, how does it know my name? The cloud is marketed as a complicated ecosystem. The simplest way to put it, is that you are choosing to use a service on someone else’s computer. Sometimes you share that computer with another client but no one else, sometimes you have it all to yourself, sometimes you share that same service with everyone else. This is the cloud, and this is also why you need to be sure you have someone on your side that knows the ins and outs of other people’s computers that they are offering for a service.
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You may hear about vendors offering to put your app or data in their cloud solution. At first glance this seems to take a lot of stress off of your business, but how do you vet this? What if your data is sensitive? What are the repercussions of their service going down? How do you quickly get back to operation? How is it configured on their side? How do they guarantee recoverability of your data? These are all questions that need to be asked, among many others.
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Without proper experts looking out for your business’s best interest you would be shooting in the dark for security. Even with large companies that are offering cloud services like Microsoft Azure, there is still a requirement of understanding and technical know-how to ensure proper operation in the cloud.
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The cloud isn’t scary once you know how it works, but it also doesn’t mean it is the best option for every business. Talk to us to see what is right for you. You’ll hear us say this a lot, but there is no cookie cutter solution for any business Even if there are common trends, the implementation does not look the same everywhere.

Identity Management

          Who are you, what are you doing here? You can’t be here!”
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          “Do you even know who I am?!?!”
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         “No unfortunately I do not, your company does not have an identity management system”
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Identity management is an important, but rarely talked about topic with clients. Okay that first sentence wasn’t completely true, your IT company has probably talked to you about identity management (a lot) in different words. Have you ever been told every user needs their own account? Implement multifactor authentication? Tie your login to applications to your 365 credentials? Use single sign on?
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All of these questions are asked to strengthen your identity management system, and to ensure only authorized users can access certain systems or data. Identity management isn't one tool that encompasses everything; it is a variety of practices, procedures, and tools that are designed to achieve secure, auditable, and authorized access while making it easy for users to engage with it.
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To put it simply, you need to know who is doing what in your environment. Without identity management, it is a best guess scenario as to who has access to what, who did what, and when it happened. Especially with shared accounts, this muddies the water up a lot more than one would think!
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Have someone on your side to ensure your identity management practices are up to latest standards, book an appointment with us.
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Policy and Compliance

Everyone loves policies, people are always compliant, no one makes mistakes, and Santa Clause is real. This is common knowledge… in fairy tales.
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Do users take data from work on a whim and move around with it? Do users prefer a little more freedom on their work computer while remote? Anyone want to watch or listen to their hobbies on a work device? Without policies in place, you cannot expect compliance, it is assumed at best. Policies are created so that employees know what is important to your company.
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Policies are also a double-edged sword, if you create policies for the sake of policies it becomes monotonous and it is hard to decipher what is important and what is not. Policies will never be the same for every organization, even though you may see policies that every organization has. In order to create an upward trend in compliance numbers, your policies need to make sense and resonate with your employees. Above all else, policies need to affect everyone equally from the owner to the client.
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An example of a policy that may be different between organizations would be, how much control do users have over their remote work devices? Factors that would go into building a remote device policy would be things like “Does the device ever come back to the corporate office?”, “What domain are these devices being controlled under?”, “Will these users have administrative access to their devices?”, “What kind of internet connection are they going to have during the majority of their work time?”, and “What kind of work are they doing and type of data they are handling?”. This may prompt your company to have two types of remote device policies or clarifications in the policy so that a user who takes their laptop home is held under different standards than someone who works in the field and they go to the field and home but never the office. Once you have tailored policies for your organization, you can have confidence in your compliance numbers.
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Where do you start? Start off by booking an appointment with us so we can show you what policies to create, what to include, what to leave out. Your lawyers & HR can take care of the rest.
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Privileged Access Management

                    “I’m the owner, I should have access to everything.”
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                    “I am head of this department I should have access to everyone’s mailboxes at my fingertips.”
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                    “I am very careful, it’s okay if I have access to every folder, I never take data outside of work.”
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All of these should raise flags in your organization. Don’t let big scary bosses allow your business to make unhealthy considerations with privileged access management, even if you are the boss reading this. Let’s get a mirror and have a talk about what privileged access management is and what it is not.
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Privileged access management (let’s call it PAM going forward) is a process and not one single tool (almost tired of hearing this aren’t you?). The first and most important part of PAM is that your goal is to have a limited amount of people accessing sensitive information and systems. “I am the owner though?” you say. While that is true, do you access and utilize the data or system on a daily basis or can that role be delegated to someone trusted and trained. “Okay but I am still the owner you can’t just not give me access” you continue to say. This is why PAM is important, there are ways to ensure the owner has complete access to their entire business while not having day to day access. Imagine if someone who has keys to the kingdom gets compromised. Having a role higher on the totem pole does not make you immune to attacks, in fact, you should be more concerned about how much access higher roles have because it is likely more sensitive data. A proper PAM could have the owner use emergency break glass accounts that they never use but could use if they needed to get in.
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A simple example would be: The owner has emergency access credentials, and bad people, if they get in to the owner’s computer, do not; intruders would be limited to what is available day to day for the owner. This in itself is a problem, but the attack surface is minimized. Principle of least privilege is important to understand and utilize to the fullest and you need to find what works for your organization.
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This is just one part of PAM, and without proper monitoring and reviewing then the PAM is less effective. How do new privileged accounts get flagged? Who reviews access regularly? What about “temporary” accounts that are granted access? How temporary was it actually? Are you disabling privileged accounts when they go on vacation? Like most things, it all comes down to risks associated with your business and what risks you are willing to accept.
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There are many other areas that make a proper PAM process, some are tools, some are requirements (like strong authentication, multifactor), and time limited access. The more you can incorporate the better suited your organization is to lower its attack surface. Talk to us about what it would take to build a proper PAM process for your organization.

Website Development

Oh, this website looks like it is from the 90s… Why can’t I order this on their website? Where is their portfolio? Why is this link broken? ad infinitum. You’ll never make everyone happy, but, with a properly developed site you can ensure that every service you want on your site is available and functioning correctly. If your site makes your client feel like they have time travelled, then it is time to talk to us.
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In this digital age, a time when business cards are a thing of the past, websites mean more. You are putting the front door on your business on display 24/7/364 (because not even Microsoft is 365). From functionality, user experience, to how fast it loads on a smart phone with a bad connection; developing a great site is key. Even if your business “doesn’t need much”, it is well worth investing in. Does your site render properly on mobile devices? tablets? those fancy millions of pixels resolution monitors? What about proper security best practices? Do you know the full functionality of what a website can do for you? There are many things a website can do that you might want for your business but you will need someone who can understand your business and how you can utilize it. Don’t settle for “good enough” solutions, get a website that is incorporated into your business flow to enhance your operations, otherwise, what is the point in having one?
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Ready to leave the dark ages where you get a website and leave it for 30 years? Give us a shout today to transform your brand into a
modern masterpiece that not only looks fantastic but works flawlessly. Work with us to make your presence so compelling that visitors can’t help but engage. In the ocean that is the internet, let’s make your website a lighthouse, not a shipwreck.

Website Maintenance

Alright, your website is done, we can sit back and wait until 2050 before we make another one, right? WRONG!

If you aren’t moving forward, you’re falling behind.
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- Some wise guy

I like to think of it as a river you’re swimming upstream in, once you stop swimming you start getting behind. Some businesses want to get that motorboat going and plow up the river and some businesses are perfectly comfortable swimming in place. With either goal, your business needs a strategy to maintain its desired position.
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Maintaining your website is like having little floaties, helping you take a break from swimming so hard. Maybe they act as flippers to give you a little boost. No one strategy is the same but maintaining and up to date website is a must. Your website needs to remain seamless, secure, and updated. When was the last time you visited your own website? What about updating its content? You decided to use plugins, are you sure they aren’t out of date now? Who backs up your website? These are not technical niceties; they are the backbone of your website’s reliability and appeal.
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Whether it is your latest product offerings, your blog’s newest insights you need to ensure it runs smoothly and efficiently. Regular maintenance keeps your site fast, secure, and Google-friendly (or another organization that comes along to beat out Google…-friendly). What about your reviews, do you monitor and maintain them? Wouldn’t you rather get notified by someone who is monitoring your online presence.
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I want to let sleeping dogs lie, they are so cute when they sleep, but:

In the fast-paced world of the internet, staying static is the equivalent of moving backward. A neglected site becomes vulnerable to security threats, compatibility issues, and a decline in user engagement. Regular maintenance not only protects your investment but also reinforces your brand's reputation and supports your business’s growth by ensuring your digital presence is always at its best.
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Let’s not let your website’s potential go untapped. We are ready to ensure your site remains an asset, not a liability. Your website if the heart of your digital strategy, contact us to keep it beating strong.
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Who We Are

Multifactor Authetication

User Education & Awareness

Security First IT Practices

“I don’t want extra login steps. Give me administrator privileges. I don’t want to have to enter administrator credentials.”
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- The user who doesn’t know when they are compromised
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Having security primarily in mind when dealing with any digital product or service should be the first thought when deploying any solution, process, or executing on current processes. While convenience is important, it should not be the main motivating factor. Most users value convenience over security, and with that, comes a lack of understanding on the importance of a strong cybersecurity posture. With proper education and training, users can get comfortable with a balance of security and convenience.

No attack surface is 100% covered, this is a myth, and anyone who tells you that they can guarantee safety is selling nothing more than IT snake oil. Security events that result in breaches are a when, not an if, and all businesses should be prepared in all of the areas you are reading about here.
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Camat Solutions maintains their standards by keeping up with updates to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a way to reduce the attack surface of your business. From NIST themselves:
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“This is what we use to help your business:
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Govern - This is considered the sixth core function, but it is meant to encompass all 5 core functions listed below. Helping you develop an understanding of how cybersecurity works and how it relates to your business. Strategically helping you utilize the tools you use that may present risk and how to reduce risk. Bringing all of the five core functions below to the surface so that every user in an organization is living in a transparent and accountable digital security landscape.
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Identify - Regular and ongoing checks to maintain your asset data, processes, information flows, hardware/software inventory, establishing policies, establishing any risks, vulnerabilities, or threats, and even helping to ensure roles and responsibilities are clearly defined.
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Protect - Once everything is documented and kept up to date and you have regular checks happening, you now need to decide the best course of action to protect yourself. How will you store your data? Who has access to it? What kind of protection do you need for each device? When and where will you train users? You also need to consider your backups, how are you protecting your data in the event of loss? This core function is meant to take care of all of that.
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Detect - We are protected now right? We have a process to identify and protect. That is very much only the start. Your business needs to constantly be working on improving their ways to detect security events. Regular processes to reviewing logs, and detection of events needs to be improved. Bad actors (bad guys) do not stop improving, so neither should you. Your business should also be prepared to share security events, should one happen, and without a proper impact analysis of events, you will be sharing incomplete information at best.
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Respond - You're here, something happened, but good thing you have a process in place to respond to security incidents. Because you have been so proactive, you can now be confident in sharing what has happened with internal and external parties. Everyone has a role to play in the response of an event that unfortunately has led to a security incident. Your processes for the respond core function should get updated regularly as new and better practices surface.
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Recover - The last core function, recovery, is your last line of defense to keep your business running, reduce cost, save reputation.
Ensuring your recovery plans are updated which would include how to communication, who to communicate with, and what to say, are crucial in the circle of life in the digital world. Remember when I said no attack surface is 100% covered? Being able to recover from an attack strengthens your ability to not have to negotiate with cyber-terrorists if it ever comes to that. Resilience is key.”

There are many ways to achieve this, here are some related slides but keep in mind, security is a non-exhaustive list ALWAYS. Contact us to book an appointment to see if you are a fit for our program today.

Data Security & Password Management

Business Impact

How is this impacting my business?
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- Someone who asked too late
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This is the one question you need to ask BEFORE you have to deal with an event. When it is all said and done, the proactive work your business can do far outweighs the amount of work you will need to recover when your business is impacted.
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Understanding risks, vulnerabilities, and threats, help reduce business impact when it happens. Staying at the forefront of IT standards before they become law helps your business to not have to scramble. There are some laws in Canada that need to be adhered to already and we use a framework that covers all of these and more. If you have not read Security First IT Practices, please do. Business impact has a spot in every core function when preparing your business against digital threats.
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Have an expert on your side guiding you on how to best reduce your risk without using the catch all phrase "don't use this, it is bad". A wholesome approach starts with a list of risks and partnering with an expert to find out how crucial a tool or process is. Then working together to figure out the most secure way to usethe tool or follow a process. This approach eliminates the frustration of having to discontinue use of a tool or process without a replacement. Together we can figure out a way to make it work and understand the risk that is involved. It is your business and only you should decide what is best for it. This will help your business thrive in a risk filled digital world.
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One popular example is: “Well my vendor said I have to pay $30,000 to get that new machine in order to update that computer.” Great, so it is business critical, but you don't have the revenue to spend on a new machine yet. There are safety measures you can put in place, improvement to processes, and strategic plans that can be implemented to reduce the attack surface of a vulnerable system. Obviously the best course of action is to keep it updated or purchase the latest and greatest. Not every business has that luxury. We live in the real world and we will help you survive in it.

Business Continuity

Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Cloud Security

Identity Management

Who are you, what are you doing here? You can’t be here!”
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“Do you even know who I am?!?!”
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“No unfortunately I do not, your company does not have an identity management system”
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Identity management is an important, but rarely talked about topic with clients. Okay that first sentence wasn’t completely true, your IT company has probably talked to you about identity management (a lot) in different words. Have you ever been told every user needs their own account? Implement multifactor authentication? Tie your login to applications to your 365 credentials? Use single sign on?
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All of these questions are asked to strengthen your identity management system, and to ensure only authorized users can access certain systems or data. Identity management isn't one tool that encompasses everything; it is a variety of practices, procedures, and tools that are designed to achieve secure, auditable, and authorized access while making it easy for users to engage with it.
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To put it simply, you need to know who is doing what in your environment. Without identity management, it is a best guess scenario as to who has access to what, who did what, and when it happened. Especially with shared accounts, this muddies the water up a lot more than one would think!
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Have someone on your side to ensure your identity management practices are up to latest standards, book an appointment with us.

Policy and Compliance

Privileged Access Management

“I’m the owner, I should have access to everything.”
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“I am head of this department I should have access to everyone’s mailboxes at my fingertips.”
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“I am very careful, it’s okay if I have access to every folder, I never take data outside of work.”
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All of these should raise flags in your organization. Don’t let big scary bosses allow your business to make unhealthy considerations with privileged access management, even if you are the boss reading this. Let’s get a mirror and have a talk about what privileged access management is and what it is not.
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Privileged access management (let’s call it PAM going forward) is a process and not one single tool (almost tired of hearing this aren’t you?). The first and most important part of PAM is that your goal is to have a limited amount of people accessing sensitive information and systems. “I am the owner though?” you say. While that is true, do you access and utilize the data or system on a daily basis or can that role be delegated to someone trusted and trained. “Okay but I am still the owner you can’t just not give me access” you continue to say. This is why PAM is important, there are ways to ensure the owner has complete access to their entire business while not having day to day access. Imagine if someone who has keys to the kingdom gets compromised. Having a role higher on the totem pole does not make you immune to attacks, in fact, you should be more concerned about how much access higher roles have because it is likely more sensitive data. A proper PAM could have the owner use emergency break glass accounts that they never use but could use if they needed to get in.
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A simple example would be: The owner has emergency access credentials, and bad people, if they get in to the owner’s computer, do not; intruders would be limited to what is available day to day for the owner. This in itself is a problem, but the attack surface is minimized. Principle of least privilege is important to understand and utilize to the fullest and you need to find what works for your organization.
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This is just one part of PAM, and without proper monitoring and reviewing then the PAM is less effective. How do new privileged accounts get flagged? Who reviews access regularly? What about “temporary” accounts that are granted access? How temporary was it actually? Are you disabling privileged accounts when they go on vacation? Like most things, it all comes down to risks associated with your business and what risks you are willing to accept.
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There are many other areas that make a proper PAM process, some are tools, some are requirements (like strong authentication, multifactor), and time limited access. The more you can incorporate the better suited your organization is to lower its attack surface. Talk to us about what it would take to build a proper PAM process for your organization.

Website Development

Website Maintenance

Alright, your website is done, we can sit back and wait until 2050 before we make another one, right? WRONG!

"If you aren’t moving forward, you’re falling behind."
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- Some wise guy

I like to think of it as a river you’re swimming upstream in, once you stop swimming you start getting behind. Some businesses want to get that motorboat going and plow up the river and some businesses are perfectly comfortable swimming in place. With either goal, your business needs a strategy to maintain its desired position.
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Maintaining your website is like having little floaties, helping you take a break from swimming so hard. Maybe they act as flippers to give you a little boost. No one strategy is the same but maintaining and up to date website is a must. Your website needs to remain seamless, secure, and updated. When was the last time you visited your own website? What about updating its content? You decided to use plugins, are you sure they aren’t out of date now? Who backs up your website? These are not technical niceties; they are the backbone of your website’s reliability and appeal.
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Whether it is your latest product offerings, your blog’s newest insights you need to ensure it runs smoothly and efficiently. Regular maintenance keeps your site fast, secure, and Google-friendly (or another organization that comes along to beat out Google…-friendly). What about your reviews, do you monitor and maintain them? Wouldn’t you rather get notified by someone who is monitoring your online presence.
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I want to let sleeping dogs lie, they are so cute when they sleep, but:

In the fast-paced world of the internet, staying static is the equivalent of moving backward. A neglected site becomes vulnerable to security threats, compatibility issues, and a decline in user engagement. Regular maintenance not only protects your investment but also reinforces your brand's reputation and supports your business’s growth by ensuring your digital presence is always at its best.
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Let’s not let your website’s potential go untapped. We are ready to ensure your site remains an asset, not a liability. Your website if the heart of your digital strategy, contact us to keep it beating strong.

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