Cybersecurity Assessment in Atlanta, GA

Cybersecurity Assessment in Atlanta, GA: Know Exactly Where Your Business Is Exposed

Most Atlanta businesses discover their security gaps after a breach, not before. COMNEXIA, headquartered in Roswell, GA and serving metro Atlanta since 1991, delivers structured cybersecurity assessments that map every exploitable weakness across your endpoints, identities, network, and data before an attacker finds them first. This is not a checklist exercise. It is a documented, technical evaluation that produces a ranked remediation roadmap your IT team or ours can act on immediately.

What a Cybersecurity Assessment Actually Covers

A COMNEXIA cybersecurity assessment examines five concrete layers of your environment. First, endpoint protection posture: we verify whether SentinelOne EDR or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is deployed, correctly configured, and actively reporting to a 24/7 SOC. An agent that is installed but not reporting is effectively absent. Second, identity and access controls: we audit Microsoft Entra ID conditional access policies, confirm MFA enforcement across all licensed users, and flag any accounts with standing administrative privileges that should use Privileged Identity Management instead. Third, patch and configuration hygiene: we pull current patch-compliance data from your RMM platform (NinjaOne or ConnectWise Automate) to surface unpatched operating systems, firmware, and third-party applications. Fourth, backup architecture: we confirm whether your backup strategy meets the 3-2-1 standard (three copies, two media types, one off-site or immutable cloud copy) and test that restores actually work. Fifth, security-awareness posture: we review whether your staff has completed phishing-simulation training and identify departments with the highest click rates.

Regulatory Drivers for Atlanta Businesses

Several compliance frameworks make a formal cybersecurity assessment a legal or contractual requirement, not an optional project. Atlanta-area auto dealerships subject to the FTC Safeguards Rule (16 CFR 314.4) must document a written information security program and designate a qualified individual to oversee it. A COMNEXIA assessment produces the gap analysis and asset inventory that satisfy that documentation requirement. Dealerships running CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, or Dealertrack systems carry cardholder data that also triggers PCI DSS scope, which requires annual risk assessments of in-scope systems. Healthcare-adjacent organizations in the Fulton County area face HIPAA Security Rule obligations that include a formal risk analysis under 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1). Defense contractors pursuing or holding contracts must meet CMMC Level 2 requirements, many of which map directly to the controls our assessment evaluates. We identify which frameworks apply to your specific business, then score your current posture against each relevant control set.

The Dealership Scenario: Why This Service Fits Your Store

An Atlanta-area dealership group running Reynolds and Reynolds ERA or CDK Drive as its DMS typically has a flat network where a single compromised workstation can reach the DMS server, the F&I desktops, and the service lane terminals simultaneously. During a COMNEXIA assessment, we map that network topology, test segmentation between the DMS VLAN and general staff wireless, and verify that Microsoft Defender for Cloud or equivalent monitoring is alerting on lateral movement. We also review whether the dealership's FTC Safeguards Rule documentation names a qualified individual, includes a vendor-risk assessment of CDK or Dealertrack as a service provider, and covers the required annual penetration-testing obligation that took effect in June 2023. Most dealerships we assess in the Atlanta corridor are missing at least two of those three items.

What You Receive After the Assessment

• An asset inventory of all endpoints, servers, and network devices discovered during the engagement, with operating system and patch-level recorded for each
• A Microsoft Entra ID configuration report showing conditional access policy gaps, MFA enrollment gaps, and any accounts with excessive standing permissions
• An EDR coverage report confirming SentinelOne or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enrollment percentage and any endpoints missing active protection
• A backup-architecture diagram verified against 3-2-1 requirements, with documented restore test results
• A ranked remediation list, ordered by risk severity, with specific configuration changes required rather than general recommendations
• A regulatory gap summary mapped to whichever standards apply: FTC Safeguards Rule, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or CMMC

Why Atlanta Businesses Choose COMNEXIA

COMNEXIA has operated in the Georgia market for 35 years. We do not subcontract the assessment work overseas or run it through an automated scanner alone. A senior engineer reviews every finding, removes false positives, and contextualizes risk against your actual business operations. If you run a multi-rooftop dealership group across Fulton County, our engineer knows that CDK and Reynolds integrations introduce specific network trust relationships that a generic scan will not flag. That operational context is what turns a report into a usable action plan.

Schedule Your Atlanta Cybersecurity Assessment

If your Atlanta-area business needs a documented security assessment, whether to satisfy the FTC Safeguards Rule, prepare for a PCI QSA review, or simply confirm your defenses are working, call COMNEXIA at (877) 600-6550. We will confirm scope, schedule an engineer, and deliver a written findings report with a prioritized remediation plan within an agreed timeline. No automated PDF report dropped in your inbox without context. Real findings, real fixes.