La Crete, Alberta
Cybersecurity services for La Crete businesses.
We are headquartered here. Same hamlet, same school district, same gravel roads. Managed cybersecurity, managed IT, and a paid insurance-readiness assessment, all priced for family-owned operations in the 5-to-50-seat range.
About La Crete
La Crete is a Mackenzie County hamlet of roughly 3,500 people, with a working-age economy built almost entirely on family ownership. Grain and oilseed operations, livestock haulers, bulk-fuel dealers, grain handling, the local lumber mills and forestry contractors, oilpatch service companies, retail along Highway 697, and a professional-services layer of accountants, agronomy services, and equipment dealers that supports all of it.
What that means for cybersecurity is that almost every business in town runs on a Microsoft 365 tenant, a handful of laptops, an office computer that does payroll and dispatch, and increasingly some form of cloud bookkeeping or fleet-tracking software. Those are exactly the systems modern ransomware and business-email- compromise attacks go after, and they are exactly what carriers are asking you to prove you protect when you renew your insurance.
Common cybersecurity challenges in La Crete
Seasonal workload, year-round threats
Seeding, spraying, harvest, hauling — the work doesn't stop for a phishing email at 6 a.m. We see attacks land hardest during the busy weeks, when staff are tired and quick to click. The defences have to run when no one is watching the screen.
Cyber-insurance carriers are now asking real questions
The MFA checkbox is no longer enough. Carriers want documented EDR, immutable backups, written incident response plans, and evidence the controls are actually in place. A surprising number of La Crete businesses are unknowingly out of compliance with their existing policy.
One office computer running too much
It's common out here for the bookkeeper's laptop to also run dispatch, payroll, and the QuickBooks file. If that machine is compromised or stolen, the business stops. Segmenting that risk doesn't require enterprise infrastructure — it requires someone who's thought about it.
Starlink and mixed connectivity
Most operations now have a mix of Starlink, Telus fibre at the shop, cellular failover in the truck, and Wi-Fi in the bin yard. Each link is a different security perimeter, and the small-office firewalls that ship with most setups don't handle this gracefully out of the box.
How we serve La Crete businesses
La Crete is where we live. Onsite visits cost us nothing extra to arrange and are part of every Tier 2 and Tier 3 engagement — by default monthly, more often if needed, same-day for emergencies. Day-to-day work is remote: RMM, EDR alerts, M365 administration, patch deployment, monitoring. Phone calls get answered. Saturday mornings are available by appointment for anything that needs a quiet shop.
Response targets: 90 minutes for critical issues, next-business-day for standard requests. We'll tell you which is which.
Services in La Crete
Cyber Essentials
$95/seat/mo
Managed security only. Huntress 24/7 EDR, M365 baseline, MFA enforcement, monthly phishing simulation, M365 backup. For businesses that already have IT but want a real cybersecurity partner.
Cyber Essentials + Managed IT
$175/seat/mo
Most La Crete clients land here. Security plus full IT helpdesk, RMM, patch management, asset documentation, and a quarterly in-person business review.
Cyber Premium
$275/seat/mo
Adds BCDR with on-prem appliance, 90-minute critical SLA, vCISO services, and cyber-insurance liaison. For 15+ seat operations or anyone facing carrier requirements.
What businesses in La Crete ask us
We run a small family business — do we really need this?
If you have a Microsoft 365 tenant, take credit-card or e-transfer payments, store customer records, or rely on any computer to run payroll or dispatch — yes. The threats don't care that the business is family-owned, and modern cyber-insurance won't cover you without basic controls in place. The $95/seat tier is built specifically for small operations that need a real baseline without a Tier-2 commitment.
How fast can you get onsite if something breaks?
We're in La Crete. Same-day for emergencies, next-business-day for standard requests, Saturday mornings by appointment. There's no driving in from Edmonton, no waiting on a tech to be dispatched from somewhere else. If we can't fix it remotely we're at your shop the same day, most of the time within a couple hours.
Do you understand how ag and trucking businesses actually work?
Yes. We know that seeding and harvest don't pause for IT problems, that dispatch software running on a dusty Windows machine in the shop is still business-critical, and that a 'minor' Starlink outage during haul season is anything but minor. We design around how the work actually runs, not how a city office building runs.
What about Hutterite and Mennonite colony operations?
We work with several. Engagements are typically structured around limited internet access and tightly-controlled device policies, with one or two designated administrators rather than full per-user accounts. Pricing flexes accordingly. Talk to us — we've done this before.
Get started in La Crete
Five minutes on the Risk Report gives you a clear picture of where you stand. Or just send us an email and we'll go from there.