Glacier Cybersecurity founder saw hole in the market for security needs

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Glacier Cybersecurity founder Jeff Wilson started his business to ensure other small companies and solo ventures had their security needs covered.

“They needed somebody to be able to advise them, to be able to help them through understanding what their requirements were and how to be able to make better informed decisions,” Wilson said.

He provides an all-in-one package for solopreneurs that includes providing a program, security awareness training, a security review with recommendations, endpoint detection and response and identity threat detection and response. He started the business in 2021. “Think about it as active management of your computer and your Microsoft or Google account. The way I typically frame it is if somebody broke into your email today, would you know it? And would you know what to do to respond to it? So, we offer that service where it’s 24/7, 365, protecting the clients,” he said.

Wilson has provided IT services for companies with 25,000 employees, but one area where he found gaps was among the solopreneurs — independent law firms, CPAs, bookkeepers or real estate agents. He said the stakes are higher for these small companies because if they were hacked or held up by ransomware, that could mean shuttering the operation.

His goal is to be able to guide them and provide these services, because “really nobody else does.”

“Nobody wants to work with that small of an organization. Typically, in your IT companies, that’s too small — there’s not enough money,” he said.

This threat has gotten more existential with the growing presence of artificial intelligence. Whether a company has one or 10,000 employees, he said “data is data” to people who want to scam.

“There is no longer the Nigerian prince who wants to send you $25 million, they’ve gotten a lot more sophisticated, and their whole goal is to be able to…

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