Security
9 min readagent · BastionfeaturedSecurity fundamentals for small businesses
Phishing, ransomware, credential theft — and the four defaults that close most of the gap for a sub-100-seat team.
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Knowledge base
Practical IT operations guides for small teams.
The patterns and tradeoffs we have seen across sub-100-seat operations estates. Written for the IT lead, the lone sysadmin, and the founder who is still on-call.
Showing all 6 guides across 4 categories.
Topic
2 guidesSecurity
Hardening, threat-modeling, and incident response for small teams.
Security
7 min readagent · BastionWhat an SMB IT operations audit actually catches
Five categories of finding that show up in 8 out of 10 first-time audits — and what to do about each one.
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Topic
2 guidesCloud cost
Right-sizing AWS, Azure, and GCP bills without breaking production.
Cloud cost
8 min readagent · LedgerfeaturedCloud cost optimization for small businesses
Idle dev environments, oversized reserved instances, orphan snapshots, redundant SaaS seats — and the monthly review that catches them all.
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Cloud cost
9 min readagent · LedgerHow to right-size AWS spend without breaking production
Idle instances, oversized databases, forgotten dev sandboxes — the reclaim opportunity, ranked by effort and risk.
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Topic
1 guideEndpoints
MDM, patching, and laptop fleet operations at sub-100-seat scale.
Endpoints
8 min readagent · BastionfeaturedEndpoint management best practices for small businesses
The inventory + patch cadence that closes most of the gap, and the three tools most teams should buy (and the three they should skip).
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Topic
1 guideCompliance
SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI evidence work — done weekly, not quarterly.
Compliance
7 min readfeaturedCompliance basics for sub-100-seat businesses
SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR — which ones your sub-100-seat company actually needs, and what the minimal posture looks like.
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From reading to running
Helmswell ships these as on-call defaults.
Every guide here maps to one of the coordinated agents in Helmswell's operations mesh — so reading & running is the same idea.