Safeguard Your
Private Life
Safeguard your private life against modern threats. We implement robust digital identity protection, encrypted communications, and network-level security to keep hackers out.
What you are actually up against
Four attack types account for almost every incident we are called in on. None of them are exotic. All of them are preventable with the layers below.
Credential breaches
Billions of username and password pairs already sit in public dumps. If you reuse one password anywhere, an old breach from years ago is still a working key today.
Phishing & MFA fatigue
Convincing login pages, spoofed domains and relentless push notifications. Anything you can type into a fake page, an attacker can already read. Only hardware keys end this.
Identity takeover
SIM swaps, account resets, broker data pieced together into a usable profile. Once someone has your identifiers and your email, everything else falls in sequence.
Untrusted networks
Hotel Wi-Fi, airport lounges, shared offices, even an IoT gadget on your own LAN. Without encryption and segmentation, anything on the same network can quietly move sideways.
Every layer between you and the attacker
A strong password is only the first wall. What sits behind it — your second factor, your encryption, your network and your monitoring — decides whether one mistake becomes a bad afternoon or a lost identity.
One vault, unique passwords everywhere, passkeys where it matters, and a hardware key on every account that can take one. Reuse is the single biggest risk most people carry.
End-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, encrypted email where it matters, plus a VPN and encrypted DNS so your provider can see neither your browsing nor your conversations.
A firewall that says no by default, encrypted DNS nobody can hijack, and separate networks for IoT, guests and work devices, so one weak gadget cannot reach everything else.
We watch breach dumps, broker listings and your own network for anything unusual. When something moves, you get a call with a plan, not a vague notification you will never act on.
Fully managed, or co-managed with your own keys
Some people want to hand the whole thing over and never think about it again. Others want to hold their own keys and stay in the loop. Both are built from the same playbook, and you can move between them later.
We run it, you live your life
The complete stack deployed, configured and maintained by us. You get the protection, the monitoring and the monthly report, without any of the day-to-day admin.
- ✓We deploy, configure and maintain the whole stack end to end
- ✓24/7 monitoring with a human on call for anything urgent
- ✓Monthly patching, credential rotation and broker re-checks
- ✓A plain-language report every month, plus an annual full re-audit
You hold the keys, we hold the map
The same architecture, but the root credentials, recovery material and encryption keys stay with you. We design it, build it, document it and stay on call, while you keep ultimate control.
- ✓Root access, recovery material and encryption keys remain yours
- ✓Everything documented, so you are never locked into us
- ✓Self-hosted options available for email, sync and password storage
- ✓We stay on call for incidents, audits and anything unusual
Not sure which fits? · We walk through both in the audit · You decide · We build
What changes when your identity is actually protected
Most people are not careless. They are simply carrying twenty years of accounts, reused passwords and default settings, with nobody watching any of it.
Same passwords, no second factor, nobody watching
Accounts built up over years, one password reused across dozens of them, SMS as the only second factor, and personal details sitting on hundreds of broker sites.
- ✕One leaked password opens the email account, and from there everything else
- ✕SMS codes as the second factor, which SIM-swap attacks walk straight past
- ✕Personal details listed on broker sites and old breach dumps
- ✕No monitoring, so the first sign of a breach is usually a friend asking why
Unique credentials, hardware keys, everything watched
Every account unique, every important login protected by a hardware key, everything encrypted, and someone actually watching for the moment something appears where it should not.
- ✓Every account has a unique credential, so one leak stays one leak
- ✓Hardware keys defeat phishing outright, because they check the domain first
- ✓Broker listings removed, breach exposure monitored continuously
- ✓Alerts within the hour, with a plan you can act on immediately
The numbers your security audit ships with
Every engagement ends with a written report and a baseline you can check against later. These are the numbers a typical personal protection programme produces.
From a credential appearing in a dump to you being told about it, with a plan attached. The industry norm for unmanaged accounts is measured in months.
Every credential in the vault is unique, long and random. Nothing is shared between accounts, so nothing chains from one breach to the next.
Data broker profiles taken down in a typical first pass, then re-checked monthly, because new listings appear constantly.
Every account that supports a hardware key uses one. SMS is disabled everywhere, which removes SIM-swap and interception from the threat model.
Protection that fits your life, not the other way round
Security that gets in the way is security people switch off. Everything here is designed to be invisible on a normal day and decisive on a bad one.
You cannot protect what you have not mapped
The audit starts with everything you own: accounts, devices, domains, phone numbers, backups, cloud storage, old logins you forgot existed. Each one gets a score, a fix and an owner. You get a written baseline you can check against a year later, not a vague sense that things are probably fine.
Every device leaves the house encrypted
Laptops, phones and tablets connect through an encrypted tunnel with encrypted DNS, wherever they are. Hotel Wi-Fi, airport lounges and coffee shop networks stop being a risk, and your provider stops being a witness.
Client work on untrusted networks
Separate profiles for work and personal, encrypted tunnels on every connection, and client data that stays inside an encrypted container.
Everyone covered, including the youngest
Filtered DNS for the kids, separate accounts so nothing is shared, and device-level protections they will never have to think about.
Your threat model will not stay the same
New role, new city, new business, new public profile. The setup is reviewed annually and adjusted as your exposure changes. Anything that matters can be swapped or re-keyed without rebuilding from scratch, and everything is documented so you are never dependent on one person.
Banking, crypto and tax, walled off
Financial accounts live behind their own hardware key, their own email alias and their own device profile. A compromise anywhere else in your digital life cannot reach them.
Tools chosen for your life, not for a feature list
Two people with the same job and the same risk profile can still need different tools. We pick around your devices, your habits and how much you want to manage yourself.
Vault & passkeys
A zero-knowledge password manager with passkey support, shared only where you choose, backed by an emergency access plan that actually works.
Hardware security keys
Two FIDO2 keys per person, one on the keyring and one stored offline. They check the domain before they sign, which is why phishing simply stops working.
Encrypted network
A firewall at the edge of the home network, encrypted DNS everywhere, and a VPN on every device, with separate VLANs for IoT, guests and work.
Encrypted backups
Three copies, two media types, one offsite, encrypted with keys only you hold. Restores are tested on a schedule, not assumed.
Pick the level of cover that fits your life
The tiers below are examples. Within each one, the accounts, devices, encryption and monitoring are adapted to what you actually own and how exposed you are. Fully managed or co-managed, on every tier.
Lockdown
The foundations done properly. Everything that stops the vast majority of everyday attacks, deployed and documented in a single session.
- CredentialsVault + unique passwords
- MFAApp-based hardware key optional
- DevicesUp to 5 · disk encryption
- MonitoringBreach alerts
Complete
The full personal stack. Hardware-backed logins, encrypted comms, a hardened home network, encrypted backups and continuous monitoring.
- CredentialsVault + passkeys hardware keys
- CommsE2EE · VPN · encrypted DNS
- NetworkFirewall + VLANs whole home
- MonitoringBreach + broker 24/7
Maximum
For public profiles, founders and high-value targets. Compartmentalised identities, hardened devices, travel protocols and a rehearsed response plan.
- IdentityCompartmentalised aliases
- DevicesHardened + attested
- ResponseOn-call incident plan
- ReviewQuarterly re-audit
Examples only · Every programme is adapted · Fully managed or co-managed on every tier
From the first audit to a signed security baseline
A short, evidence-first process. We map, we close, we encrypt, we watch, and you get the written report before anything is declared finished.
Exposure audit
We map every account, device, alias and old login, then check what is already exposed in breach data and broker listings. Nothing changes until the picture is complete.
Lockdown & encryption
Vault deployed, unique credentials everywhere, hardware keys registered, SMS removed, and every device encrypted with encrypted DNS and VPN in place.
Network & data
Firewall, VLANs and filtering at the edge of the home network, plus encrypted backups and a recovery plan that gets tested, not just written down.
Monitor & respond
Continuous breach and broker monitoring, monthly reporting, an annual re-audit, and a human on call the moment something actually happens.
One reused password, eleven compromised accounts
This is the most common story we see: nothing dramatic, no hacking genius, just one old password that had already leaked years earlier.
A quiet breach that had already happened years before anyone noticed
The first sign was a friend asking why they had received a strange link. By then, the email account had already been accessed from another country, the bank had already been reset, and a cloud storage folder had already been copied. None of it required a sophisticated attack. It required one password, used twice, from a breach in 2016.
- An old password still worked. A credential leaked in a 2016 breach had been reused on the primary email account, untouched for eight years.
- No second factor on email. The account that could reset everything else had only a password protecting it. No app, no key, nothing.
- The reset chain. From email, the attacker reset the bank, the cloud storage and two social accounts in under forty minutes.
- Unencrypted DNS on public Wi-Fi. A spoofed captive portal at an airport had captured a session token months earlier, which was never invalidated.
- No monitoring, no visibility. There was no alert for new sign-ins, no breach notification, and no way to see which devices had accessed the account.
The fix was not dramatic. Unique credentials, hardware keys on the accounts that matter, encrypted DNS and VPN on every device, a hardened home network, and monitoring that would have flagged the foreign login within the hour. Same person, same habits, completely different outcome.
Reuse is the whole ballgame
One unique password per account turns a breach into a single inconvenience instead of a chain reaction.
Protect the reset path first
Your email account is the master key. It gets the strongest hardware key you own, before anything else does.
Encryption everywhere, not sometimes
One unencrypted session on public Wi-Fi is enough. The tunnel has to be on by default, on every device.
Detection beats prevention alone
Assume something will get through eventually. What matters is knowing within the hour, not within the year.
Turns out the breach had happened years earlier and nobody ever told me. Now I would know within the hour.
Individual clientThe hardware key felt like overkill until I watched a phishing page fail against it in real time.
Founder · high-profile tierEverything still works exactly the way it did before. It is just that nothing leaks any more.
Family householdBefore we start an audit
The things people usually ask us before the first conversation.
I don't think I'm interesting enough to be a target. Is this overkill?
Almost all attacks are automated, not personal. Credential stuffing, broker scraping and phishing campaigns run against millions of accounts at once and do not care who you are. The question is not whether someone is targeting you specifically, but whether your accounts would survive an attack that was never aimed at anyone in particular.
What actually happens in the first session?
We start with an exposure audit. We list your accounts, devices, aliases and old logins, then check what is already visible in breach data and broker listings. You get a written picture of where you stand and a prioritised plan before anything is changed. Nothing is touched until you have seen the plan and agreed to it.
Do you store my passwords or my encryption keys?
No. In the fully managed model we can administer the setup without ever holding your vault master password or your encryption keys. In the co-managed model the root credentials and keys stay with you entirely, and we work from documentation rather than secrets. Either way, we never need to be able to read your data in order to protect it.
What happens if I lose a security key or my phone?
That is planned for from day one. Everyone gets at least two registered keys, with the backup stored somewhere offline and sensible. Recovery codes are printed and kept with the recovery kit. We also run through the lost-key scenario during handover, so it is something you have already done once before it ever matters.
Will any of this slow down my devices or my internet?
In normal use, no. Hardware keys are faster than typing a code. An encrypted tunnel on modern hardware adds negligible latency for browsing, calls and streaming. The home network changes are about segmentation and filtering, not throughput. If anything on your setup is unusually sensitive to latency, we will tell you before we deploy it.
Can you help if an account is already compromised?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people call us. We contain the incident first, then work through recovery: sessions revoked, credentials rotated, second factors rebuilt, devices checked, and any financial or identity exposure addressed. Afterwards we close whatever allowed it in, so it does not happen twice.
Can you cover my family or a small team?
Yes. The same architecture scales to a household or a small team, with separate accounts per person, shared secrets handled through the vault rather than over chat, and a group-level view of who is covered and who still needs work. Kids get a lighter, age-appropriate version of the same setup.
Ready to take your identity back?
From the first exposure audit to a signed security baseline, Davidsons IT Agency maps, hardens and monitors your digital life: identity protection, encrypted communications and network-level security, built around the way you actually live. Fully managed or co-managed, your choice.
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