{"id":33343,"date":"2020-06-19T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/?p=33343"},"modified":"2020-06-19T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:51:33","slug":"new-orbitalfire-security-service-is-launched-to-help-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2020\/06\/new-orbitalfire-security-service-is-launched-to-help-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"New OrbitalFire Security Service Is Launched To Help Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33344\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/06\/orbitalfire-headshot-harnish-c-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/06\/orbitalfire-headshot-harnish-c-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2020\/06\/orbitalfire-headshot-harnish-c.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reg Harnish is the chief operating officer of OrbitalFire, a cybersecurity business.<br \/>Courtesy Reg Harnish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Andrea Harwood Palmer<br \/>\nOrbitalFire, a managed security service provider headquartered in Queensbury, launched a new service platform in early June. It is designed to help small businesses.<br \/>\n\u201cOrbitalFire provides cybersecurity solutions specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses, including regulatory compliance, risk management, assessment, training, security monitoring and other services that have traditionally been available only to enterprises,\u201d according to CEO Reg Harnish.<br \/>\n\u201cCybersecurity is confusing for most businesses\u2014they don\u2019t know where to start. Our goal at OrbitalFire is to redefine cybersecurity for small businesses. Your small to medium business doesn\u2019t look like Target, or Walmart, or Boeing. So you shouldn\u2019t think about cybersecurity in the same way they do,\u201d he said.<!--more--><br \/>\nHe said the company exists for \u201cevery small- and medium-sized business owner who has ignored cybersecurity, or who has felt neglected, or has done their best to invest and do the right things in cybersecurity and still felt alienated &#8230; We want to help them solve this problem in a way that scales with their business, is affordable and, from a best practice standpoint, delivers effective cybersecurity without treating you like you\u2019re the Pentagon.\u201d<br \/>\nHarnish is no stranger to the tech space. He is the founder of GreyCastle Security in Troy and continues to sit on its board of directors.<br \/>\nHe recently launched Slingshot Cyberventures, a cybersecurity advisory service firm targeting early-stage cybersecurity companies. He has been doing startups since 1995 and has been through several initial public offerings (IPOs) and acquisitions. He is the former chief technology officer of the Autotask Corp.<br \/>\nHarnish partnered with Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk\u2019s\u2014a noted engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist\u2014on internet venture FunkyTalk.com.<br \/>\n\u201cCybersecurity in general has become a highly visible, important undertaking for most businesses. Larger organizations have the benefit of more resources\u2014people, time, energy, money\u2014and small businesses have really suffered. Whether its technology or service providers, the industry has historically focused on medium to larger sized businesses because there is more margin and bigger contracts. Meanwhile, smaller businesses have gotten left behind,\u201d said Harnish.<br \/>\nHe said small businesses have distinct advantages in cybersecurity. They don\u2019t have as much data, they tend to be less complex, have fewer business partners and often have a better general sense of where their data is stored.<br \/>\n\u201cSecurity really relies on your ability to understand what kind of data you have, who has access to it, where it goes. Small businesses can do that. Large businesses can\u2019t, because there\u2019s just too much of it,\u201d Harnish said.<br \/>\n\u201cIn our quest here, we want to take some of these implicit advantages that small businesses have, leverage those and start to redefine what makes sense for a small business to do from a security standpoint.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhile some of this dialog has been going in the industry for some time, no one has really come up with a good solution for small managed practices. They\u2019ve really been left behind. We\u2019re going to take care of that,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nOrbitalFire has been working in \u201cstealth mode,\u201d as Harnish referred to their pre-launch strategy. They have nearly 40 clients.<br \/>\nThe company will partner with managed security service providers (MSSPs) and IT providers. StoredTech in Queensbury is the first MSSP partner from the region to come on board.<br \/>\nOrbitalFire will partner with other firms both locally and throughout the U.S. The firm has several other silent partners from various sub-sectors the tech services space, according to Harnish.<br \/>\nHe anticipates close to $1 million in gross revenue during the first 12 months.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got a good grounding here. We\u2019re starting from a good point,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThough the company is currently in Queensbury, that could change in the future.<br \/>\nOrbitalFire can be reached at m&#101;&#x64;&#x69;a&#64;&#111;&#x72;&#x62;i&#116;&#97;&#x6c;&#x66;i&#114;&#x65;&#x2e;&#x63;o&#109; or at 1-800-ORB-FIRE. The website is www.orbitalfire.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrea Harwood Palmer OrbitalFire, a managed security service provider headquartered in Queensbury, launched a new service platform in early June. 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