INSPECTOR Why small businesses get hit when they "have nothing worth stealing"
A small business has plenty worth stealing: the bank account, payroll, the customer list, invoices and, above all, the trust of its larger customers. Modern attacks are not aimed by hand. They sweep the internet for email domains without authentication, servers with open ports, admin panels with default passwords and credentials already leaked from other breaches. Small businesses get hit because they are the least watched, not because they are the most interesting.
The three hits we see most often in companies of 10 to 200 people: invoice and wire fraud, where an email that looks like your vendor or your CEO asks to pay to a new account; ransomware that encrypts the billing server and the backups stored next to it; and the hijacked mailbox that sends phishing to every customer in your name.
What AI monitoring is, and how it differs from antivirus and from a pentest
Antivirus protects each computer from the inside. A penetration test is a one-time, in-depth exercise a specialist runs on one application, usually once a year. Monitoring is the layer in between and the everyday part: AI agents re-check what your company exposes to the internet every week, review every change to your code, follow new threats against the exact technology you use, and alert you within 24 hours when something critical appears. A person reads the results and explains them to you once a month. Here is a side-by-side comparison.
It starts with Onboarding, $2,000 USD one time: an inventory, a first review and a prioritized fix list. Then Vigía, $900 USD a month, covers one VPS server, one GitHub organization and your website, with a monthly report and a 30-minute call. Vigía Plus, $1,800 USD a month, covers several apps, cloud and identity, and includes a written incident response plan. Prices are the same in the United States and Mexico.
What we need from you
Very little: 15 minutes for the assessment, a signed contract and NDA, and read-only access to your repository, server, cloud and DNS. You do not need to hire anyone or change your IT provider; the monthly technical report tells your provider exactly what to fix. We serve the United States from Bentonville, Arkansas and San Antonio, Texas, with pages for Bentonville, Northwest Arkansas and San Antonio, and Mexico from Torreón.