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These guides are written for owners, operations leaders, and internal teams that need clearer planning, better support structure, and a more realistic view of what should be reviewed first.
Resource library
Use these guides to review your current setup, spot common gaps, and decide what deserves attention before you spend money on tools or projects.
Download the 2026 Business IT Strategy Toolkit from Sun Life Tech for practical planning around budgeting, cybersecurity priorities, Microsoft 365 security, backups, lifecycle planning, and growth readiness.
Learn what CMMC means for small manufacturers, CNC shops, machine shops, fabricators, aerospace suppliers, and defense subcontractors trying to protect defense revenue without enterprise complexity.
Review a practical CMMC Level 1 checklist for small businesses and small manufacturers covering access, MFA, endpoint protection, backups, asset inventory, and evidence basics.
Understand the difference between CMMC readiness work and certification so small manufacturers do not confuse preparation help with guaranteed outcomes.
See what usually belongs in a CMMC evidence binder for small manufacturers, including policies, screenshots, user records, device lists, backup records, and remediation notes.
Understand what drives CMMC readiness cost for small manufacturers, including documentation gaps, legacy systems, evidence cleanup, Microsoft 365 issues, and remediation scope.
Get practical help responding to prime contractor cybersecurity questionnaires without overclaiming readiness or missing the evidence behind your answers.
Review the Microsoft 365 security settings that most often matter during CMMC readiness work, including MFA, admin controls, stale accounts, email security, and evidence capture.
See how CMMC readiness issues usually show up inside CNC machine shops, from shared stations and vendor access to old PCs, file handling, and missing documentation.
Learn how CMMC readiness work applies to metal fabrication companies dealing with mixed systems, old PCs, documentation gaps, and customer pressure.
Understand why small manufacturers delay CMMC readiness work and what the delay can cost in defense revenue, contract confidence, pricing leverage, and last-minute cleanup expense.
Download the 50-Employee IT Readiness Guide to review support structure, Microsoft 365 security, onboarding, backups, device standards, and technology planning for growing teams.
Download the 200-Employee IT Scaling Checklist for practical review of support systems, access control, backups, vendor management, reporting, and operational maturity.
Download the 500-Employee IT Operations Guide to review service delivery, escalation, documentation, security operations, backups, and governance for more complex environments.
Download the 1,000-Employee Technology Maturity Guide for leadership review of governance, security, continuity, vendor accountability, reporting, and strategic technology planning.
Download the Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist from Sun Life Tech for practical review of MFA, backups, Microsoft 365 security, phishing, endpoint protection, and access cleanup.
Download a practical employee cybersecurity training guide covering awareness topics, phishing drills, reporting habits, reinforcement cadence, and policy basics for small teams.
Download a ransomware defense guide covering identity controls, endpoint hardening, backup verification, segmentation priorities, and response planning for small businesses.
Download a malware protection guide covering endpoint baselines, detection layers, update cadence, user habits, and containment priorities for business environments.
Download a phishing defense guide covering inbox controls, user habits, escalation workflow, MFA alignment, and spoofing protections for business email environments.
Download a website security guide covering update cadence, backups, admin access, plugin risk, hosting hygiene, and incident-response basics for business websites.
Download a practical cybersecurity checklist for Florida small businesses covering MFA, passwords, backups, Microsoft 365 security, phishing, website security, and offboarding controls.
Download a practical CMMC Level 1 readiness checklist for machine shops and small manufacturers. Includes access control, authentication, device inventory, evidence, and documentation checkpoints.
Review common cyber insurance readiness areas such as MFA, endpoint protection, backups, Microsoft 365 security, employee training, and written policies.
Download a practical real estate email fraud prevention guide for agents, brokers, title teams, and mortgage professionals. Covers MFA, wire verification, phishing protection, and offboarding controls.
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Use the calculator to estimate the cost of recurring technology issues before deciding what should be reviewed or fixed first.
Estimate annual IT waste from recurring support drag, outages, reactive work, and security cleanup. Then use the result to decide whether the next step is better support, a security review, a planning discussion, or a resource download.
How to use these resources
Each guide focuses on a specific business technology or cybersecurity topic so you can review it on its own and decide whether further review is worth your time.
Each guide is framed around practical use, common gaps, and realistic next steps instead of hype or fear language.
Short forms make it easy to request a guide, and the privacy language explains what happens next.
If a guide surfaces technical gaps, you can request help reviewing the environment without pressure.