Cybersecurity & Privacy Readiness
BBN Labs hardens the security basics most small businesses skip until an incident. We roll out two-factor logins, password managers, role-based access and tested backups. We secure your website, domain and email with a secure site and anti-spoofing setup, plus your forms. We set up your privacy policy, marketing-consent workflows and staff awareness training. Specialized assessments and managed IT go to vetted partners, and you'll know who before anything is booked.
What you get
- Two-factor logins on email, admin accounts and anything that touches money
- Password-manager setup and team onboarding
- Role-based access review and ex-staff lockout procedure
- Backup strategy: automated, offsite, actually restored in a test
- Website security: updates, SSL, headers
- Email security: anti-spoofing setup so nobody can send email as you (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
- Secure forms and upload handling
- Privacy policy and email-consent setup that follows Canada's anti-spam law
- Staff security-awareness session and incident-response checklist
- Referrals to vetted partners for specialized assessments and managed IT
What it fixes
- One shared password runs the whole business
- Ex-staff still have access to email and socials
- Backups are assumed but never tested
- Spoofed emails impersonate your domain to your customers
- Privacy rules apply to you and nobody's checked
Where a project includes physical work, it is completed by licensed contractors BBN coordinates.
Process
How a project runs
01
Inventory: accounts, access, data and exposure
02
Fix the front doors first: two-factor logins, passwords, access
03
Backups configured and restore-tested
04
Email and website hardening
05
Train the team; leave a checklist for when something feels wrong
Funding categories that may relate
The honest read on funding
Security work may form part of qualifying digital-adoption projects under some programs, subject to their rules. Most of it is simply prudent operating cost. We won't dress hygiene up as a grant story.
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Canada Small Business Financing Program
Up to $1,000,000
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BDC Financing — Start-up
Up to $150,000
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Technology Equipment Loan (BDC)
Secure the capital you need for digital infrastructure, IT equipment, and cybersecurity upgrades. This BDC loan supports your modernization efforts…
Last verified July 3, 2026
Packages
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Staff Training & Adoption Package
Technology your team actually uses, with hands-on training and follow-up support.
Technology only pays for itself when staff use it. This package assesses where your team gets stuck, builds plain-language guides and cheat sheets, runs hands-on sessions for the tools you own, and follows up after launch to confirm the new habits stick.
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Frequently asked questions
We're tiny. Are we really a target?
Small businesses are targeted precisely because defences are thin and a single locked laptop can stop the company. Basics like two-factor logins, tested backups and access control eliminate the majority of realistic risk for a fraction of what one incident costs.
Do you do penetration testing?
No. Specialized assessments are referred to vetted security partners, and we tell you that before any engagement. Our lane is implementation: the practical hardening most SMBs never get around to.
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