Public trust, public records —
and a one-person IT department. We've got you.
Schools and local governments sit near the top of every attacked-sector list, for a simple reason: your staff directory, your vendor lists, and your board minutes are public records — so the attacker's homework is already done — and the person defending it all usually has three other jobs. Org Guard puts a real Security Architect and an always-on detection engine behind your email and your admin console, read-only, at a price a budget line can absorb.
Read-only by design · Evidence with every finding · Call or text (940) 281-6672
The attacks are tuned to how public entities work.
Vendor-payment redirect
Your vendors and payment schedules are in public board minutes. The "updated banking details" email arrives timed to a real invoice, from a lookalike of a real contractor. It carries no malware, so nothing built into your email stops it. We read what the message is asking for — and flag the redirect before finance acts.
Payroll diversion
A "direct-deposit change" request to HR, impersonating a teacher or clerk whose name is on your public site. We watch for the pretext, and help you put a verification step in front of every banking change — the control insurers now ask about by name.
Staff account takeover
A password from an old breach, a sign-in from the other side of the world, a quiet forwarding rule on a business-office mailbox. It is all in your admin console's audit log — if anyone reads it. We do, every day, and a takeover becomes a phone call instead of a discovery months later.
The insurance & audit squeeze
Cyber-insurance renewals and state audit requirements now demand MFA, monitoring, and incident planning — with premiums and coverage riding on the answers. We get you to "yes, and here's the dated evidence," and keep you there.
Ransomware is the headline fear for a school district or a city office, and that fear is fair — a locked-up finance system or a canceled school day is a real, visible failure. But Mandiant's M-Trends 2025 report found data theft in 66% of the cloud compromises it investigated, and identity — a stolen or reused credential — as the entry point in most of them. That is what we watch first: the sign-in, the admin console, the forwarding rule, before the ransomware note ever appears.
Five things not to do.
- Don't pay reflexively. An extortion payment purchases a promise from criminals, not a guarantee of anything — decide with your carrier and counsel, not under the clock the attacker set.
- Don't reboot or wipe affected machines. Rebooting can trigger the payload again and destroys the memory evidence that explains how the attacker got in.
- Don't restore to a point that predates only the encryption. If the attacker was inside for weeks before encrypting anything, restoring to yesterday can restore their access along with your files.
- Don't let ransom-note screenshots circulate. They spread panic faster than facts and can leak details that help the attacker verify who is talking to whom.
- Don't stay quiet. Disconnect the affected systems, then call us and your insurance carrier — the clock on most policies' notification requirements is already running whether you've called or not.
The same Org Guard, aimed at a public entity's realities.
Org Guard's coverage, tiers, and published limits are identical for every organization — exactly what's included, in writing. What changes here is the emphasis:
Money-movement guardrails first
Vendor-change and payroll-change verification procedures, written for your office and reviewed with the people who move the money — because payment redirect is the loss that actually empties public accounts.
Your public footprint, attacker's-eye view
We read what's published about your entity the way an attacker does — staff pages, vendor lists, meeting minutes — and tell you which scams that information enables, so front-office staff know exactly which pretexts to expect.
Evidence a public body can file
Every finding quotes the record it came from and carries a re-check date. Reports are written to be read aloud in a board meeting and filed with an auditor — no scores without sources, no assertions you can't verify.
How to buy from us.
Everything your purchasing or accounts-payable office usually asks for, in one place.
| Your office needs | What we provide |
|---|---|
| Vendor legal name | Family Sentinel LLC, a Texas limited liability company |
| D-U-N-S number | 14-770-5546 |
| W-9 | Sent on request, the same day |
| Pricing | Published on plans & pricing, flat and monthly. A written quote for your files on request, at the published price. |
| Purchase orders and invoices | No card needed: we work from your purchase order and invoice your office directly. |
| Scope in writing | A statement of work listing exactly what is covered, using the published limits on what's included, and what isn't |
| Security review of us | Our security page and security packet, plus answers to your vendor-security questionnaire |
| Sole-source or justification letter | If your policy calls for one, we write a short factual letter describing the service. Your procurement office decides whether it applies. |
Questions from a business office get a written answer from a person: email security@familysentinel.org, or call or text (940) 281-6672.
Fair questions, straight answers.
We have one IT person for the whole district. Is this for us?
That is exactly who this is for. Org Guard is a fractional security team: our engine watches around the clock, a Security Architect verifies anything it flags, and your IT person gets a precise, evidence-backed fix list instead of another dashboard to check. We work alongside them, never around them.
Does this help with our cyber-insurance renewal?
Yes — it's one of the most valuable things we do. On Guardian Plus and above we sit down with the questionnaire, close the gaps it exposes, and hand you an evidence packet at renewal. Public entities face the strictest renewal requirements; arriving with monitoring in place, MFA coverage numbers, and dated evidence changes the conversation with the underwriter.
Can you work within a public-entity budget cycle?
Yes. Pricing is flat, published, and monthly — the numbers are on the site, not behind a demo — so it can be written into a budget line and approved once. The rate you join at is locked for 24 months.
What access do you need, and who approves it?
Read-only access, granted from your own admin console while we're on a call together, revocable in one click without our permission. We never hold passwords. Everything granted is documented in writing on day one — the kind of record a board or council can review. The exact permissions, published →
Start with a free posture review.
Fifteen minutes on the phone with a working Security Architect — where your district or office actually stands, what an attacker can see from your public records, and whether Org Guard is worth it for you. An honest "you're fine, here's a checklist" is a real possible outcome.
Request the free reviewOr simply call — (940) 281-6672 — and talk to the Security Architect directly.
Related guides
- Business Email Compromise Prevention Checklist — the payment-redirect scam that hits finance offices, and how to stop it.
- Microsoft 365 Email Hardening Checklist — the settings a tenant leaves off by default, in order of impact.
- Executive Impersonation & Invoice Fraud — the two costliest impersonation scams, with a verification playbook.