Johnathon Claudius

So it helps make sure things like the firewalls enable that, like when you walk away that your laptop password comes on, that you have disk encryption.

That's what the main function of that, that like sort of component is.

And then there's also a component, which we call EDR, which is a more active sort of like

either threat monitoring or threat prevention tooling that sits on the laptop and and anyone who's done a lot of like security around around laptops in general will sort of know these terms but

I think they've become a lot more relevant in a world where everyone went to the MacBook store to get their MacBook and there's no like centralized IT department or there's no expected controls around this.

For us and for a lot of our clients, especially those that are working with financial institutions like banks, there's a strong expectation that they're like complying with some sort of standard like SOC 2 standards.

or ISO 27001.

So that's where some of these controls can come into play.

I know folks roll their eyes on these controls because they're like not sexy at all, but they're really important.

And they provide a layer of protection that I think a lot of clients don't appreciate until they have a compromise.

And then they realize they don't have the logs.

They have no traces.

They can't really tell what happened and it leaves them in a pretty vulnerable state.

So when we do incident response, if clients have these tools or they've thought ahead and put together a plan, maybe we're working with them or maybe they found those tools on their own, it puts them in a much better position to have them than not have them.

And they're not that expensive, generally speaking.

Yeah, yeah.

All that.

Yes.

I feel like running a business like as a founder or even just an engineer in a small business like Web3 organization.

These are table stakes that a lot of folks just don't think about.