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“Texans reported $1.8 billion in cybercrime losses to the FBI in 2025 — the second-highest of any state.”
Cybercriminals don’t skip small businesses; they count on them. More than half of U.S. small businesses were attacked in the past year, and Texans reported $1.8 billion in losses to the FBI in 2025, second only to California. For a 15-person law office in Georgetown or a 60-person contractor in Round Rock, one compromised email account can mean a fraudulent wire transfer, a week of downtime, or a breach-notification letter to every client.
Computek is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider based in Georgetown, Texas serving businesses across Williamson and Travis counties. We protect small and mid-sized businesses with a layered defense: managed endpoint detection and response, email and identity security, patching, tested backups, employee security awareness training, and a local team that responds when something looks wrong
You don’t need to hire a security team, learn the tools, or watch the alerts. That’s what we do. You get a predictable monthly cost, proof for your cyber insurance carrier, and the someone who answers the phone when you call: a person in Central Texas who already knows your network.
What changes when Computek handles your cybersecurity?
1. Someone is watching when attacks actually happen. Two-thirds of attacks by Akira, the most-reported ransomware group of 2025, happened on nights and weekends (At-Bay, 2026 InsurSec Report findings). An in-house IT person works 40 of the 168 hours in a week. Managed detection and response watches all of them
2. A whole security team for less than one salary. The average base salary for a cybersecurity analyst in Austin is about $98,000, before benefits, tools, training and turnover (Indeed, July 2026). Nearly half of companies with 100 to 250 employees that were hit by ransomware said a lack of people or capacity played a role (Sophos 2026). With Computek you get engineers, the security stack and the vendor relationships for a flat monthly fee.
3. Patching on a schedule, because unpatched software is now the front door. Exploited vulnerabilities start 31% of breaches, the leading entry point for the first time, and most organizations fully fix only a quarter of their critical vulnerabilities (Verizon 2026). We inventory every device, firewall and server, apply updates on a cadence, and report what was patched and when.
4. Email and identity protection built for the fraud that actually drains accounts. Email compromise and funds-transfer fraud were 58% of cyber insurance claims in 2025 (Coalition 2026). Turning on MFA is not enough on its own: 97% of credential-based ransomware incidents happened at organizations that had MFA enabled in some capacity (Sophos 2026). We layer phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access, mailbox-rule monitoring and spoofing protection
5. Backups are verified so you can say no. A record 86% of insured businesses refused to pay ransom in 2025 (Coalition 2026), while only half of small businesses that did pay got all their data back (Hiscox 2026). The FBI’s first recommendation is encrypted, immutable, off-site backups (FBI IC3 2025). We run them, test restores, and time how long a full recovery takes before you ever need one.
6. Proof for your cyber insurance carrier. Underwriters now ask for evidence of MFA on every account, endpoint detection and response on every device, tested backups, a written incident response plan and security training; missing any one is a common reason for a declined application or a denied claim.
7. Employees who recognize the attack. The human element appears in 62% of breaches, and phishing by text or voice call gets 40% more clicks than email (Verizon 2026). Our awareness training and phishing simulations cover the phone in your employee’s pocket, not just the inbox.
8. Faster detection, smaller bill. Organizations using security AI and automation across their program cut breach costs by $1.93 million and shortened the breach lifecycle by 65 days (IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026). Enterprise-grade detection tools are priced for enterprises; an MSP spreads that cost across every client it protects.
9. A head start on the Texas notification clock. When a breach hits, Texas gives you 60 days to notify individuals and 30 days to notify the Attorney General if 250 or more Texans are affected. Because we log and monitor before anything happens, we can tell you what was touched, when, and by whom, which is the difference between a scoped notification and a company-wide one.
10. One predictable number instead of one very large one. For businesses under $25 million in revenue, the average ransomware claim reached $422,000 in 2025, and one in ten victims was down for more than 30 days (At-Bay 2026). Managed security is a monthly line item you can budget; recovery is not.
| Do it yourself | Hire one in-house | Computek managed security | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring hours per week | When someone notices | 40 | 24/7 monitoring |
| Annual cost | Tools and lost time | About $98,000 base salary plus benefits and tools (Austin, 2026) | Flat monthly fee |
| Endpoint detection, email security, backup tools | Bought and managed piecemeal | Chosen and run by one person | Included and managed |
| Vacation, sick days, turnover | No coverage | No coverage | Team coverage |
| Cyber insurance documentation | You compile it | Added to one person’s workload | Maintained for you |
| Incident response | Call around | One person, if available | response to critical alerts |
| Local, on-site when needed | n/a | Yes | Yes, from Georgetown |
Computek’s Managed Cybersecurity Services Include:
Managed endpoint detection and response (EDR/MDR).
Every laptop, desktop and server gets a monitored agent that spots and isolates ransomware behavior, not just known virus signatures. Antivirus alone no longer satisfies most cyber insurance underwriters; EDR does.
Email security and spam filtering.
Advanced filtering, link and attachment scanning, and spoofing protection (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Email is the root cause of half of ransomware incidents (Sophos 2026) and the entry point for most wire fraud.
Phishing protection and employee security awareness training.
Short, regular training plus simulated phishing by email, text and phone, with reporting you can show your insurer.
Managed firewall and network security.
Next-generation firewalls with intrusion prevention, segmented networks for guests and devices, secure remote access, and firmware kept current. Remote-access tools and VPNs were the way in for 87% of ransomware claims in 2025 (At-Bay 2026); we close the ones you don’t need and harden the ones you do. See our network security services.
Identity and access management.
Multi-factor authentication on every account, conditional access policies, least-privilege admin rights and monitoring for suspicious sign-ins and mailbox rules, so a stolen password is not enough to get in.
Patch and vulnerability management.
Scheduled updates for operating systems, applications, firewalls and firmware, prioritized by what attackers are actively exploiting.
Backup and disaster recovery.
Encrypted, off-site, immutable backups of servers, workstations and Microsoft 365 data, with restores tested on a schedule and a documented recovery-time target for your business.
Dark web monitoring.
Continuous checks for your company’s email addresses and credentials in breach dumps and criminal marketplaces, with forced password resets when something surfaces.
Cybersecurity assessments and compliance support.
A comprehensive cybersecurity assessment to find gaps before criminals do, plus documentation for cyber insurance applications and frameworks your clients may require
Security incident response.
A documented plan, a known phone number, and a team that has already seen your network, so the first hour of an incident is spent containing it, not finding a vendor.
What Central Texas small businesses are up against in 2027
In the past 12 months, 56% of U.S. small businesses experienced at least one cyber attack, and the average target saw 2.38 attempts (Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2026, survey of 1,000 U.S. firms under 250 employees). One in four of those attacked said the incident materially threatened the company’s solvency. Texas businesses and residents filed 97,912 complaints with the FBI in 2025 and reported $1.8 billion in losses, second only to California (FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report).
Losses reported to the FBI by year (billions USD), source FBI IC3 2025
Bar chart of losses reported to the FBI by year: $4.2 billion (2020), $6.9 billion (2021), $10.3 billion (2022), $12.5 billion (2023), $16.6 billion (2024), $20.9 billion (2025). Source: FBI IC3 2025.
For the first time, unpatched software is the number-one way in. Vulnerability exploitation now starts 31% of breaches, ahead of stolen credentials at 13%, and organizations fully fixed only 26% of their critical vulnerabilities in 2025, taking a median 43 days to do it (Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report). People are still in the loop: the human element appears in 62% of breaches, and phishing by text or voice call gets 40% more clicks than phishing by email. Among cyber-insurance claims, 87% of ransomware incidents began through a remote-access tool such as a VPN or RDP (At-Bay 2026 InsurSec Report).
Ransomware was involved in 48% of all breaches in Verizon’s 2026 report, up from 44%, and Verizon notes that small organizations are disproportionately affected. Only 34% of companies with 100 to 250 employees stopped a ransomware attack before data was encrypted, compared with 46% of companies with 3,000 to 5,000 employees; 48% of the smaller companies said a lack of people or capacity played a role (Sophos State of Ransomware 2026). Average recovery cost, not counting any ransom, is $1.7 million. For businesses under $25 million in revenue, the average ransomware insurance claim rose 40% to $422,000 in 2025, and one in ten victims was down for more than 30 days (At-Bay 2026).
Business email compromise cost Americans $3.05 billion across 24,768 FBI complaints in 2025, about $123,000 per complaint, and 86% of the money left by wire or ACH (FBI IC3 2025). Email compromise and funds-transfer fraud together made up 58% of all cyber insurance claims last year (Coalition 2026 Cyber Claims Report). No malware is needed: a stolen password, a lookalike invoice, and one approved payment.
Of small businesses that paid a ransom, only 50% got all their data back, 27% were attacked again, and victims paid an average of 2.24 times to recover (Hiscox 2026). Insured businesses are increasingly refusing: a record 86% declined to pay in 2025 (Coalition 2026). Backups you have actually restored from are what make refusing possible.
AI-driven attacks rose 56% year over year and add about $1 million to the cost of a breach (IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026). The FBI logged 22,364 complaints and $893 million in losses tied to AI in 2025, including cloned-voice and AI-written executive emails used in wire fraud (FBI IC3 2025). The median attacker used AI in 15 distinct attack techniques (Verizon 2026).
Why Georgetown, Round Rock and Austin businesses are targets
Williamson County ranked ninth among all U.S. counties for population growth from 2024 to 2025, adding 23,814 residents (Williamson County Fact Sheet, May 2026). Georgetown passed 100,000 residents and has grown 47% since 2020 (Williamson County Sun). Every new subdivision brings new title companies, contractors, medical practices, law firms and property managers, and every one of them runs on email, cloud apps and a bank account. Attackers follow the money, and Central Texas has a lot of new money moving through small businesses.
Among ransomware complaints the FBI received from businesses outside critical infrastructure in 2025, 18% came from law firms and estate planners, 17% from contracting services such as electricians and general contractors, 10% from engineering and architecture firms, 7% from consultancies and 5% from non-critical manufacturers (FBI IC3 2025). Those are the same firms that fill the office parks along Williams Drive, I-35 and SH-130. Computek works with accounting, legal, construction, manufacturing, commercial real estate, property management and non-profit and faith-based organizations across the region.
Cybersecurity questions Central Texas business owners ask us
Yes. 56% of U.S. small businesses were hit by at least one cyber attack in the past year, and Texans reported $1.8 billion in cybercrime losses to the FBI in 2025, the second-highest total of any state. Law firms, contractors, engineering firms and small manufacturers were the most common non-critical-infrastructure ransomware victims the FBI heard from.
Computek charges a flat monthly fee that covers monitoring, endpoint protection, email security, patching, backups and training. For comparison, the average ransomware insurance claim for a business under $25 million in revenue was $422,000 in 2025, and the average Austin cybersecurity analyst salary is about $98,000 before benefits and tools.
No. Traditional antivirus looks for known signatures, while most 2026 attacks start with an unpatched vulnerability, a stolen login or a phishing message that contains no malware at all. Endpoint detection and response (EDR) watches behavior and isolates a machine when it starts acting like ransomware; most cyber insurers now require EDR rather than antivirus.
MFA is essential but not sufficient. In 2025, 97% of ransomware incidents caused by compromised credentials happened at organizations that had MFA enabled in some capacity, because attackers phish the MFA code, steal the session token or find an account that was skipped. Computek adds phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access rules and sign-in monitoring on top.
A managed service provider (MSP) runs your security program for a monthly fee: the tools, the monitoring, the patching, the backups and the people who respond. One in-house hire covers 40 hours a week and leaves when they take a new job; an MSP gives you a team, documented processes and coverage that doesn’t take vacation.
Texas requires you to notify affected individuals within 60 days of determining a breach of sensitive personal information occurred. If 250 or more Texas residents are affected, you must also notify the Texas Attorney General within 30 days through the AG’s online form, and the AG publishes the notice on a public list. Penalties can reach $100 per affected person per day, up to $250,000 per breach.
Most carriers now require multi-factor authentication on all accounts and remote access, endpoint detection and response on every device, encrypted and tested backups, a written incident response plan and employee security training, and they ask for proof. Computek deploys those controls and keeps the documentation current for your application and renewal.
Disconnect the affected device from the network but do not wipe it, change passwords from a clean device, and call Computek at 512-869-1155. If money was wired, call your bank immediately and file a report at ic3.gov; the FBI’s Recovery Asset Team froze $679 million of attempted fraud in 2025 when victims reported quickly. Do not contact the attacker or pay anything before talking to a professional.
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Computek provides managed cybersecurity and IT services to businesses in Georgetown, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Liberty Hill, Hutto, Pflugerville and the greater Austin area, with on-site support from our office at 1614 Williams Dr, Suite 105, Georgetown, TX 78628.
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