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A client sends you a long security questionnaire. Your insurer asks whether every account has two-factor sign-in. Or a mailbox at your company was taken over last month, and nobody can say how. Any of these is a good reason to look for a cybersecurity company, and most of the sites you will open promise round-the-clock protection in nearly the same words.
I have spent 18 years in software development. 26 Lines of Code has worked since 2017; today we are 70+ specialists with 150+ delivered projects, and our security work grew out of building software. We find what can hurt your business, test it the way an attacker would, watch your systems and respond when something happens, and our developers close the holes in the code, not only around it. This page is the map: which service fits which situation, how we start, what moves the price, and ten checks you can run on any cybersecurity company, us included.
Cybersecurity services at a glance
| What | How it works with us |
|---|---|
| What we do | Find the risks, test, watch, respond and fix: in code, servers, cloud accounts and devices |
| Who it is for | Companies without a security team of their own, and IT teams that want security people beside them |
| Price | Every engagement is estimated before work starts; the first call and the rough estimate are free |
| Where | Remotely, for companies in the US and Europe |
| A new request | Answered within 30 minutes on weekdays, 9:00-18:00 Miami time |
| What we do not do | Issue certificates or give legal advice: an accredited auditor and your counsel do that part |
Which of our cyber security services do you need
Start from your situation, not from the name of a service: the same company can need a test this month and monitoring next year.
| Your situation | Start with | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| You do not know where you stand | A risk assessment | Your risks rated by likelihood and cost, and a plan in order of importance |
| A client or an auditor wants proof against a standard | A security audit | Findings with evidence, measured against the standard, and a list of fixes |
| You are about to launch an app, or nobody has tried to break in | A penetration test | Apps, APIs, cloud accounts and networks tested, a report and a retest after the fixes |
| You hold a report full of findings that nobody fixes | Remediation | Code patched, systems hardened, settings corrected, each fix retested |
| Nobody looks after security from day to day | Managed security | Monitoring, response, updates and a monthly report, as a monthly service |
| Your IT team runs the systems, but nobody reads the logs | Monitoring | Logs and alerts checked by tools all the time and read by people, real threats contained |
| Something is happening right now | Incident response | The attack contained and investigated, systems cleaned and restored, a report |
| A small company with no IT staff | Small business security | The basics that stop most attacks, set up and kept up |
| You need a plan or a part-time security lead | Consulting | Strategy, risk and compliance advice from people who also do the work |
Two more have their own pages: industrial OT security for plants and control systems, and AI cybersecurity for the chatbots, agents and models a company runs.
Find, fix, watch, respond: how the work fits together
The services follow each other in a set order, and you can enter at any point.
- Find. A risk assessment shows where a breach would hurt most, an audit checks your controls against a standard, and a penetration test tries to break in.
- Fix. Remediation closes what they found, in code, servers, cloud and accounts, and retests every fix.
- Watch. Managed security runs the protection as a monthly service; monitoring alone puts people behind your logs.
- Respond. Incident response contains an attack, finds out how it happened, cleans up and restores.
- Plan. Consulting sets the strategy and the rules, or gives you a security lead by the month.
A company of a few people rarely needs all of this. Our cybersecurity services for small business start with six basics and keep them working.
Why your cybersecurity provider should be able to fix the code
A report is half the job. Many findings sit inside the application: an outdated library, a missing check, a key left in the code. A firm that only scans can describe them; someone still has to open the code, change it, test it and release it without breaking anything else.
That is where a software company differs. When a test finds a hole in your app, our developers close it and the testers confirm the fix, whoever wrote the software. When monitoring raises the same alert every week, the cause can be a setting or a line of code, and fixing it there stops the alert from coming back. Every change we make is reviewed by an engineer before it ships.
Of the five computer security services companies whose sites I measured for this page (more on that below), none mentions code or the developers who would fix it.
How we start
The first conversation is about your business, not about tools. Then the work runs in four steps:
- First call. What you run, what you must protect and what worries you. If the details are sensitive, we sign an NDA before you share them.
- Assessment. Systems, accounts and code reviewed, and the risks ranked by what they could cost.
- Plan. What to fix first, what to watch and what it costs, in plain words. Scope, price and timeline go into the contract.
- Protection. Fixes, monitoring and response, with a report on what changed.
From you we need a list of your sites, apps, cloud accounts and devices, a person who can grant access and answer questions, and a decision on whom we call first if something happens. Every access we receive is written down, so on the day we part you have a clear list of what to revoke.
Cyber security services pricing: what moves the estimate
We price cybersecurity services for businesses by what there is to protect, not by a package, so there is no starting price on this page. Every engagement is estimated before work starts, and the first call and the rough estimate are free. These are the things the estimate counts:
| What we count | Why it moves the price |
|---|---|
| People and devices | Every laptop, phone and account is something to set up, update and watch |
| Servers, cloud accounts and apps | More systems mean more logs to read, more to test and more to fix |
| How much watching | A test once a year costs less than monitoring all year with people on its alerts |
| The standard you must meet | An audit against a standard needs evidence for every control |
| Fixes in your code | A fix inside an app is development work, estimated like any other |
Our work: software that holds health data, and our own front door
RxPhoto is a photo record for clinics in dermatology, aesthetics, plastic surgery, vein treatment and wound care. Photos, videos, forms and notes of every patient live in one record on a secure cloud portal, and an audit log lets administrators show who opened which record and when. We worked on the backend, the web front end and the API behind the mobile app, and we support the practices that use it every day. The hard parts were building for HIPAA work and keeping photos, videos, forms and notes in one record instead of separate systems. Per rxphoto.com, 80m+ before-and-after photos are stored there and 21,280+ forms have been created in it. The details are in the RxPhoto case.
Our own site. On October 6, 2026 I ran the same header check on our new site that I ran on five cybersecurity companies below: it sends all six. When the application behind it stops, visitors get our own page instead of a raw 502 error.
Our clients rate us 5.0 on Clutch from 26 verified reviews, as of September 2026, without a single negative one.
How to check a cybersecurity company in ten minutes
Before writing this page, I measured the companies I would be compared with. In October 2026 I opened the sites of five companies providing cyber security services that Google showed me, and looked at what their own servers send. All five move visitors from http to https, and all five show a picture when their link is shared. Beyond that it thins out: two send the header that tells a browser to use https every time (HSTS), one sends a Content Security Policy, and two send none of the six security headers I checked. None names a price for its service; one prices a self-service dashboard. Five sites are a small sample, and headers are not the whole of security. They are visible from outside in a minute, though, and they show whether a company follows its own advice at home.
The first two checks take minutes on your own. The rest are questions for the proposal and the contract: they work on any cyber security services provider, large or small, ours included.
| Check | How to run it | A good answer |
|---|---|---|
| Their own front door | Open their site in Chrome, press F12, choose Network, reload, click the first line and read the response headers | Strict-Transport-Security and Content-Security-Policy are there |
| Reviews | Find them on a platform that verifies reviews | Named clients, dates and projects |
| A sample report | Ask for one with the client's name removed | Each finding with proof, severity and the fix |
| Who does the work | Ask who will test your systems and read your alerts | Roles or names, and a straight answer about partners |
| Who fixes the code | Ask what happens when the hole is inside your app | Their developers or yours fix it, and they retest |
| Certificates | Ask who issues the report or certificate you need | An independent auditor; the provider prepares you and does not sign its own work |
| A night alert | Ask what happens to an alert at 3 a.m. on a Sunday | A named process and a response time written into the contract |
| Access | Ask how they record the accounts you give them | A list you can use to revoke everything on the day you part |
| Leaving | Ask what you get back when the contract ends | Logs, reports and settings, written into the contract |
| Price | Ask how the price is set | A written estimate before any work starts |
How we answer the same checks
Our site sends all six headers. Each finding in our test reports comes with proof, severity and the fix; our developers can close it in your code, and the testers retest. You talk directly to the people who work on your systems. We prepare you for an audit, and the certificate comes from an accredited auditor or assessor. The response time we commit to, the scope and the price are written into the contract once we know what we watch, and every access you give us is written down. Ask us the leaving question too, and keep the answer in the contract.
What we do not do
- Certificates. A SOC 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate, a CMMC assessment or a PCI DSS report comes from an accredited auditor or assessor. We put the controls in place, gather the evidence and fix the gaps; our compliance services cover that work.
- Legal advice. After an incident, who must be told and by when is a question for your counsel. We keep the evidence in a form your lawyers and your insurer's team can use.
And if you are a few people on one email platform, with two-factor sign-in, a password manager and backups you have restored, you may need a yearly check rather than a monthly service.
Where to start
Tell us what you need to protect: what the business does, the systems it runs on and what worries you. We reply with where we would start and a rough estimate, free.
