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Microsoft 365 security for Venice small businesses

Squared Away Tech helps Venice-area offices of 5 to 100 people in Sarasota County lock down sign-ins, email and laptops, with fixed prices and everything documented. Based in Lakewood Ranch, serving small offices across Florida, and remotely anywhere in the U.S. Offices anywhere in Florida get the same service.

Venice is a Gulf Coast city in south Sarasota County, and its small-business community is built largely around the people who live there: medical and specialty practices, dental offices, financial advisors and CPA firms, law and estate-planning offices, real estate and property management companies, contractors and home-service businesses, and the shops and restaurants downtown along Venice Avenue.

What Venice offices tend to run into

• Financial, estate-planning and CPA offices work with clients who often have significant savings, which makes their email accounts worth targeting for scammers.
• Real estate, title and property management teams handle closings, deposits and rent payments, and are a common target for fake payment-instruction emails.
• Medical and dental practices need staff sign-ins protected and laptops encrypted so a lost device doesn’t become a patient-privacy problem.
• Contractors and builders doing repair and rebuilding work deal with steady invoices and deposits, and often run the business from personal phones.
• Seasonal staffing is common, and accounts often stay active long after someone leaves.

Hurricane season is also a reminder to know where your email and files live and that you can get to them from anywhere. Microsoft 365 handles that well when sign-ins and devices are set up properly. The technical work is done remotely, and in-person meetings can be arranged when they help.

Services and fixed prices

• Microsoft 365 Security Checkup: a read-only review of sign-in, email, admin and device settings with a plain-English report. $495 up to 10 people, $750 for 11–25, $1,250 for 26–50, $1,750 for 51–100. The first 3 founding clients get it at half price ($250 / $375 / $625 / $875).
• Tenant Lockdown: staged multi-factor and conditional access rollout, tightened email protection, change log and cyber-insurance summary. $1,450 up to 10 people ($1,150 without Entra ID P1), $2,450 for 11–25 ($1,950 without P1), $3,450 for 26–50, $4,450 for 51–100.
• Intune Device Rollout: laptops enrolled, encrypted and managed. $1,150 for up to 8 devices, $1,800 for 9–20, $2,900 for 21–40, from $4,500 for 41–100.
• Compromised Account Cleanup: a phished mailbox contained and cleaned, the tenant checked, and a written summary. $1,500 ($1,200 for active Monthly clients), plus $350 per additional mailbox.
• Monthly M365 Admin & Watch: Security Watch at $195/month for up to 10 users (+$15/user/month above 10), or Full Monthly Admin at $350/month for up to 10 users (+$25/user/month above 10; 3-month minimum, then month-to-month).
• Move to Microsoft 365: fixed-price move from Google Workspace or an old Exchange server to Microsoft 365 (mail, calendars, contacts and files, with MFA and SPF/DKIM/DMARC on from day one). $950 up to 5 users, $1,750 for 6–15, $2,950 for 16–30, from $4,950 for 31–100.
• Add-ons: DMARC/SPF/DKIM setup for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace ($250 setup + $15/domain/month; setup waived with Lockdown or Move), Cyber Insurance Questionnaire Pack (from $395 up to 10 people, or $195 with a Checkup), Bitwarden password manager rollout ($6/user/month, 5-user minimum, + $295 setup up to 10 users / $450 for 11–25), Microsoft 365 backup ($6/user/month, 5-user minimum, + $150 setup waived with Lockdown/Move/Monthly Admin; 50GB/user pooled, extra $8/100GB/month), staff phishing training ($5/user/month, 5-user minimum, + $150 setup waived with Lockdown/Monthly Admin), Annual Conditional Access Review ($450/year up to 25 users, $650 for 26–100) and Backup Restore Test ($195/test or $595/year quarterly).

Other work is $140/hour, quoted in writing first (prepaid 10-hour block $1,250; urgent same-evening work $175/hour, 1-hour minimum). Fixed prices, typically well below what MSPs charge for similar projects. See full service details.

Hours and how to reach Greg

Mon–Fri 5–9 PM and Sat 9 AM–5 PM (Eastern Time). Daytime and Sunday appointments are available on request, and daytime calls get a same-evening callback. Squared Away Tech serves small offices across Florida, and remotely anywhere in the U.S. (how remote service works).

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