Cybersecurity & Business Continuity in Boulder
Cybersecurity and business continuity services from Praxis are built for Boulder companies under 50 employees, including biotech, research, and startup teams, that need to protect sensitive data and keep working through an outage. That means endpoint protection, tested backups, and a plain-language security policy you can hand to a partner or funder, not a fear-based sales pitch.
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What Praxis handles
Praxis sets up and monitors endpoint protection, secures business email against phishing, manages tested backups, and documents your security practices in plain language for partners, funders, or landlords who ask. Praxis does not replace dedicated compliance counsel for regulated clinical trials or issue formal certifications like SOC 2; it can prepare the practical groundwork a compliance review would need, and point you toward a specialist for anything beyond that.
Boulder, in context
Boulder's life-sciences and research economy raises the stakes around data protection: the $625M, 23-building, 1M-square-foot Flatiron Park campus houses tenants like Enveda, CordenPharma, and Integris, and Gunbarrel is home to its own cluster of biotech companies. CU Boulder's research economy feeds a steady stream of spinouts and startups downtown along the Pearl Street corridor, many handling research data or investor relationships before they have any formal security practices in place.
Common scenarios
A small biotech spinout tied to CU Boulder's research economy needs to show a funder or partner it has basic security practices before a deal closes.
Praxis reviews the current setup, documents policies in plain language, and puts backups and endpoint protection in place.
The business has a straightforward security summary to share, without hiring a dedicated compliance consultant.
An employee at a Pearl Street corridor business clicks a phishing email and a fraudulent bank transfer request follows.
Praxis locks down the affected account, resets credentials, and tightens email filtering.
The incident is contained quickly and the same trick is less likely to work again.
A life-sciences company at Flatiron Park worries that ransomware could wipe out years of lab records.
Praxis sets up backups that are tested on a schedule, not just scheduled and forgotten, and monitors endpoints for suspicious activity.
If an incident happens, the data can be restored from backup rather than lost outright.
A Gunbarrel biotech tenant's landlord or insurer asks for a written security policy as a condition of the lease or coverage.
Praxis puts together a plain-language security policy document reflecting what's actually in place.
The requirement is satisfied without a full third-party security audit.
A growing startup adds remote employees and worries about company laptops leaving the building unprotected.
Praxis sets up device encryption and remote wipe capability on company laptops.
A lost or stolen laptop stays an inconvenience instead of turning into a data breach.
FAQ
Do you work with biotech and life-sciences companies near Flatiron Park?
Yes. We're used to the kind of sensitive research and partner data that comes with life-sciences work, and we build security practices around what your business actually handles.
We're not in healthcare, so we're not covered by HIPAA. Do we still need this?
Most small businesses aren't under HIPAA but still hold data worth protecting, like client records, financial information, or research. The basics matter regardless of which regulation does or doesn't apply to you.
What happens if we get hit with ransomware?
We work to isolate the affected systems and restore from backup where possible. Having tested backups in place before an incident is what makes recovery realistic.
Can you help us meet a partner's or investor's security requirements?
Yes, this comes up often with startups and research spinouts. We document your practices in language a non-technical partner can actually read.
Do you provide security awareness training for our team?
We do, focused on the phishing and social engineering tactics that actually show up in a small business's inbox, not generic slideshow training.
How is this different from just running antivirus software?
Antivirus is one piece. This covers backups, email security, policy documentation, and monitoring, so a single missed antivirus alert isn't the only thing standing between you and a bad outcome.
Do you handle compliance certifications like SOC 2?
We don't issue certifications ourselves, but we can put the practical security groundwork in place that a certification audit would look for, and connect you with an auditor for the formal review.
What's the difference between this and regular IT support?
IT support keeps your day-to-day technology working. This service is specifically about protecting data and keeping the business running if something goes wrong.
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