SUMMIT SHIELDCYBERSECURITY · COLORADO SPRINGS
Cybersecurity · Colorado Springs

Security that stops real attacks, without locking your team out.

Microsoft 365 and email security set up properly, firewalls with rules someone can explain, and backups that survive ransomware. Senior engineers, published pricing, and evidence an auditor will accept.

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Original local research · 2026

We checked 821 Colorado Springs business email domains.

Most of them would deliver a forged invoice in their own name without a challenge. No business is named; the full breakdown by industry and email provider is public.

821business email domains checked
84%can be impersonated
60%have no DMARC record at all
6%are fully protected
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What we do

Security work that stands up to an auditor, a client questionnaire, or an actual incident.

Microsoft 365 & email security

MFA people don't bypass, Conditional Access, phishing defense, SPF, DKIM and DMARC at enforcement.

Twelve practices ↓

Firewalls, VPN & segmentation

Sized for your circuit, rules documented with reasons, staff, guests, cameras and voice on separate networks.

Network security →

Cloud security

Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Azure configured on purpose, with a written record of every setting and why.

Cloud security →

Backups that survive ransomware

Immutable off-site copies, Microsoft 365 data backed up, and restores tested on a schedule with the times written down.

Backup & recovery →

Security risk assessment

Network, endpoints, email, backups and access, ranked by real impact. A plain-English list of what matters most.

Assessments →

CMMC & HIPAA

Evidence and controls, not a checklist someone signed. Defense contractors and healthcare practices.

Compliance ↓
Microsoft 365 baseline

Twelve practices we put in place

Each one is chosen for how much risk it removes against how little it gets in the way. Most small businesses run on Microsoft 365, and its sign-in is where attacks actually start.

Accounts and sign-in

01
MFA on every accountAuthenticator with number matching for staff, phishing-resistant passkeys for admins. Stops stolen and reused passwords.
02
Old sign-in methods shut offLegacy protocols that can't do MFA are blocked, so a password alone is never enough.
03
Conditional Access by device and locationA stolen password stops working from an attacker's laptop on the other side of the world.
04
Separate, limited admin accountsEveryday accounts carry no admin rights; two monitored emergency access accounts are kept in reserve.
05
Sensible passwords and self-service resetLong passphrases, banned-password protection, no forced 90-day changes, and no waiting on a phone call to get back in.

Devices

06
Managed, protected company computersIntune enrollment, drive encryption, enforced updates and Defender for Business watching for ransomware.
07
Personal phones protected at the app levelWork data in Outlook and Teams is protected without taking control of anyone's phone.

Email

08
Phishing and attachment protectionSafe Links, Safe Attachments and impersonation protection for your leadership and your domain.
09
Your domain protected from spoofingSPF, DKIM and DMARC published and enforced, and automatic forwarding to outside addresses kept off.

Data and recovery

10
Sharing defaults that don't leakLinks default to specific people, and links shared with outsiders expire. Sharing isn't banned.
11
A separate backup of your Microsoft 365 dataAn independent backup of mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. It's a separate subscription, and we tell you plainly if yours doesn't include it.

Visibility

12
Alerts someone actually readsAudit logging on, with alerts for new forwarding rules, admin changes and suspicious sign-ins, sent to a named person.

Conditional Access, Intune and Defender for Business come with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Most of the rest works on any Microsoft 365 business plan, and we'll tell you plainly whether an upgrade earns its cost for a business your size.

How we work

Security that makes work painful doesn't stay in place.

What we deliberately don't do

  • Force password changes every 90 days. Current NIST guidance advises against it without evidence of compromise.
  • Prompt for MFA on every sign-in. Constant prompts train people to approve without reading.
  • Ban external sharing outright. Files go out anyway, by personal email, where nobody can revoke them.
  • Take control of personal phones. Staff refuse, and work email ends up somewhere less protected.
  • Switch everything on in one day. New sign-in rules run in report-only mode first.

How we roll it out

  1. Look before touchingSecure Score, sign-in logs, admin roles, forwarding rules and sharing links, to find what's already exposed.
  2. Pilot in report-onlyNew policies run on a small group first, so problems surface before anyone is blocked.
  3. Roll out and documentChanges reach everyone in stages, with a way back in, and you get a written record of every setting and why it's there.
Compliance

Colorado Springs runs on defense and healthcare. Both expect evidence, not assurances.

CMMC 2.0 · NIST SP 800-171

Defense contractors and subcontractors

Gap analysis against NIST 800-171, scoping your CUI boundary, and the documentation an assessor asks for. Deadlines are usually set by the contract, so starting early is the difference between a calm project and a scramble.

CMMC compliance →
HIPAA SECURITY RULE · 45 CFR 164

Clinics and practices

A documented, ongoing risk analysis and safeguards that match your practice's real risk, not a one-time template, with business associate agreement guidance included.

HIPAA compliance →
Published pricing

Three ways to start

Email security fix

$495 fixed

If the free check finds problems, we fix them for a fixed price, done within a week.

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Secure Office

$249/mo + $35/user
  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC at enforcement, kept right
  • Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace security baseline
  • Domain, certificate and email records monitored daily, with a monthly report card
  • Shared password vault with one-time secure sharing
  • Engineer time at $175/hr, only with your OK

Includes the AI receptionist and help desk. $299 one-time setup, month to month.

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Advisory

$175/hr
  • Firewalls, network design and Wi-Fi
  • Microsoft 365 and Azure security, CMMC readiness
  • Remote work in 30-minute increments; on-site has a two-hour minimum
  • After hours $225/hr

Projects are scoped and approved in writing before work starts.

Describe your project
Why Summit Shield

Not a franchise, and not a call center.

Senior engineers

The people who do the work are the people you talk to. Identity is familiar ground: our engineers have run Active Directory and Entra ID at scale, across hundreds of domain controllers.

Veteran-owned

Service-disabled veteran-owned, and familiar with what defense primes and DCMA actually ask for.

Straight pricing

Rates are published, projects are approved in writing, and the number you agree to is the number you're invoiced.

Local

On site across Colorado Springs, El Paso County and Teller County, including Florissant, Woodland Park, Monument and Divide. Remote anywhere it makes more sense.

Questions

We already use Microsoft 365. Isn't it secure by default?

Microsoft secures the service itself. How your tenant is configured (who is an admin, what can be shared, which sign-ins are allowed, whether your data is backed up) is your responsibility, and those settings are often left exactly as they were on day one.

Will MFA annoy my staff?

Set up well, not much. With the Authenticator app and trusted devices, most people approve a sign-in occasionally rather than constantly. The prompts that do appear are meant to: a new device, or a sign-in that doesn't look like them.

What if someone gets locked out?

That's planned for before anything changes. Staff can reset their own passwords, emergency access accounts are kept in reserve, and new rules are tested in report-only mode before they're enforced.

We already have antivirus and a firewall. Is that enough?

Usually not on its own. Most breaches come through phishing, weak MFA or unmanaged access, not a missing firewall rule, and that's where we typically find the real exposure.

Do I need a compliance framework to work with you?

No. Most of what we do is general security hardening. CMMC and HIPAA work is available if you need it, but plenty of clients just want a real risk assessment and better defenses.

Who is Summit Shield?

Summit Shield is the cybersecurity practice of Summit Network Solutions LLC (Summit Networks), based in Colorado Springs. Your agreement, invoices and support portal are with Summit Networks.

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