Do you actually know what your machines are talking to?

A one-week look inside your network. We change nothing. We block nothing. You get a plain-English report of what's really going on — and you keep it either way.

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The problem no one can see

Your firewall guards the front door. Nothing watches the inside.

Most small businesses run a flat network — the point-of-sale, the cameras, the PC holding customer records, and that vendor's "black box" all share one LAN. Your firewall watches the edge, but it's blind to what your devices say to each other, and to what they quietly send out to the internet.

Under the Privacy Act 2020 you're responsible for the personal information you hold. You can't protect what you can't see.

What we do

The one-week watch

We place a small Ground Rules node behind your existing firewall. For one week it does exactly one thing: it watches, and writes down what happens.

Blocks nothing

Your network runs exactly as it does today. Nothing is switched off, slowed down, or changed.

Can't break anything

It isn't in the way of anything — it only observes. No downtime, no risk.

No disruption

No new cabling, no reconfiguration. It sits quietly and listens for a week.

What you get

A report you can actually read — and show an auditor

Who talks to whom inside your building — device to device.
What's phoning home — every outside address your machines reach, and how often.
The surprises — the appliance beaconing to an unknown server, the old box still calling a cancelled service, the camera streaming offshore.
Your data-holding machines, flagged — exactly what they connect to.

Most owners find at least one thing on that list they didn't know about.

Then it's your call

Once you can see it, you decide

1 · Leave it watching

Keep the node running, get a monthly report, and sleep a little better knowing you'd see it if something changed.

2 · Set the ground rules

We quietly tell that data-holding machine it may only talk to what you approve. Anything else is stopped and logged.

You're never locked in, and nothing moves from "watch" to "enforce" without your say-so.

Why this counts

Compliance you can actually afford

That week of evidence isn't just interesting — it's the audit trail most small businesses simply don't have.

Monitoring and network isolation aligned with recognised security standards (IEC 62443 zones & conduits, NZISM logging & segmentation).
Something concrete to show under the Privacy Act 2020: here's what our sensitive systems connect to, and here's the rule that keeps them contained.

It's the same architecture large enterprises now buy from Cisco — kernel-level observation → logging → segmentation — sized and priced for one site instead of a data centre.

A free one-week watch. Behind your firewall. You keep the report.

If it's useful, keeping the node running and applying ground rules is an affordable monthly service. If it's not, we pull the node — and you've lost nothing.

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