Security & backup infrastructure
The infrastructure layer that makes "your data stays yours" a verifiable fact, not a slogan.
Infrastructure before automation.
Most AI consultants talk about prompts. Tech Horizon Labs talks about infrastructure. Before any AI system goes live in your business, we verify that your access controls are sound, your data is backed up, and your critical workloads can recover from a failure. Keeper Security and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud are the tools we use to make that happen. This is not optional — it is how we build.
Keeper Security & KeeperPAM
Zero-trust access control for teams that handle sensitive data.
Password vaults
Every credential in your business — software logins, client portals, banking access, server passwords — stored in an encrypted, auditable vault. No more spreadsheets. No more shared emails with login details.
Zero-trust access
KeeperPAM enforces the principle of least privilege: staff only see the systems they need for their role. Access is time-limited, session-recorded, and revocable in seconds when someone leaves.
Team permissions
Role-based sharing means your bookkeeper sees the accounting tools, your practice manager sees the client database, and your IT contractor sees nothing they are not explicitly granted access to.
MFA enforcement
Multi-factor authentication enforced across your entire organisation, integrated with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and SSO. The kind of configuration that would have stopped most SME data breaches in the last five years.
API key management
Keeper Secrets Manager stores developer credentials, API keys, and environment variables. Your AI systems authenticate to external services without credentials hardcoded into any codebase.
Session recording
Every privileged session — remote desktop, SSH, database access — is recorded and logged. For industries with compliance obligations, this is the audit trail your policy already requires.
A Sunshine Coast accounting firm had seven staff sharing a single admin password for their client portal via a WhatsApp message thread. Three former staff still had access six months after leaving. The firm had no record of who logged in when. After a KeeperPAM deployment by Tech Horizon Labs, every staff member has their own encrypted vault, MFA is enforced on all systems, former staff access is revoked immediately on a documented offboarding checklist, and the partner can see every login event for any system in the business from a single dashboard. The whole implementation took two days.
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
If something goes wrong, you recover in hours. Not weeks.
Local & cloud backup
Acronis backs up to local storage for fast restores and to AU-region cloud for offsite protection. Immutable backup copies mean ransomware cannot encrypt your backups the way it encrypts your files. The 3-2-1 rule, properly implemented.
Anti-malware & ransomware protection
Behavioural detection, not just signature scanning. Acronis watches for the patterns ransomware uses to encrypt files and can stop an attack mid-execution and roll back affected files automatically — without losing more than minutes of work.
Endpoint protection
Every device in your business — laptops, desktops, servers — covered by a single agent that handles backup, anti-malware, vulnerability scanning, and patch management. One console. One billing line. No separate antivirus subscription.
Vulnerability scanning & patching
Acronis scans every endpoint for unpatched software and can push patches automatically or on approval. Most ransomware attacks in 2024 exploited known, patchable vulnerabilities. This closes that gap without manual IT overhead.
Point-in-time restore
Recover any file, folder, application, or entire machine to any point in time within your retention window. An accidental deletion from three weeks ago, a corrupted database from last Tuesday, a ransomware attack from this morning — all recoverable.
Microsoft 365 backup
Microsoft does not guarantee restoration of your deleted emails, SharePoint files, or Teams data. Acronis backs up your entire Microsoft 365 tenancy — mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams — with granular restore to any item.
A Noosa building company had no backup solution beyond a USB drive that had not been tested in eight months. After a ransomware incident at a competitor in their industry association, they engaged Tech Horizon Labs to deploy Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud across their 12 endpoints and a Windows Server running their estimating software. Backups now run hourly to a local NAS and nightly to Acronis Cloud in Sydney. The first test restore took 22 minutes to recover a full machine to bare metal. The partner's comment: "I didn't realise how exposed we were until you showed us what a restore test actually looks like."
Acronis Disaster Recovery
For workloads where downtime costs more than the prevention.
Who needs it
Any business where a server or critical application going down for more than a few hours costs real money: allied health practices with patient scheduling, legal firms with active matter management systems, accounting practices during tax season, manufacturers with production scheduling software. If you have ever done the maths on what an eight-hour outage costs and the number was uncomfortable, disaster recovery is worth the conversation.
What Tech Horizon Labs configures
Acronis Disaster Recovery spins up a cloud replica of your critical server in minutes — not the hours or days of a manual rebuild. We configure the failover target, define your RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective), document the runbook your team follows during an incident, and test the failover before we close the engagement. When something goes wrong at 2am, the procedure is already written and tested.
A Gold Coast allied health group runs patient bookings, clinical notes, and billing through a Windows Server in their practice. A hardware failure or ransomware event at the wrong time could mean days of rescheduled appointments, lost billing records, and potential regulatory obligations under the My Health Records Act. Acronis Disaster Recovery is configured so that if the physical server fails, a cloud replica is running within 15 minutes, staff can continue working from any device, and the physical server can be rebuilt or replaced without a patient ever knowing there was an incident.
How security infrastructure fits into an AI build
Tech Horizon Labs follows an infrastructure-before-automation principle. Before we connect your business data to any AI model, we verify three things: who has access to that data and whether that access is appropriate, whether the data is backed up and recoverable, and whether the environment the AI runs on is patched and monitored.
Keeper Security handles the first. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud handles the second and third. For most engagements, we assess and address security infrastructure in week one, then build the AI systems in weeks two and three. The alternative — connecting an AI system to a business that shares passwords in WhatsApp and has no working backup — is not something we will do.
For businesses that are not ready for AI yet, standalone security and backup engagements are available. The infrastructure investment is not wasted: it is the foundation everything else runs on.
Common questions
What is KeeperPAM and does my business need it?
KeeperPAM controls who can access which systems in your business and logs every action. If your team shares passwords in a spreadsheet, reuses credentials, or has former staff whose access was never removed, KeeperPAM fixes that. It is especially important for law firms, accounting practices, allied health providers, and any business handling sensitive client data.
How much does Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud cost for a small business?
Acronis is priced per workload. For a typical Queensland SME with 5 to 20 endpoints and a server, expect licensing in the range of $50 to $200 per month depending on storage consumed and features enabled. Contact us for a specific quote for your environment.
What is the difference between Acronis and backing up to a USB drive?
A USB drive covers physical data loss. It will not help you if ransomware encrypts your files, a staff member accidentally deletes records, or you need to restore a specific file from six weeks ago. Acronis covers all of that: immutable cloud backups ransomware cannot touch, granular point-in-time restore, anti-malware scanning, and documented recovery procedures. It is not the same category of tool.
Do you handle the Acronis setup end-to-end?
Yes. Tech Horizon Labs manages the full deployment: agent installation on every endpoint and server, backup policies, retention schedules, alert configuration, and a documented restore procedure. We also run a test restore before signing off on the engagement. Ongoing monitoring is available as part of a retainer.
Is security infrastructure separate from AI consulting or part of it?
Both. For clients where security gaps are identified during the initial workflow audit, we address those first. Keeper and Acronis are frequently bundled into AI implementation engagements. We also take standalone security and backup engagements for businesses that want the infrastructure sorted before they are ready for AI work.
Do you set up Keeper for team credential sharing and MFA?
Yes. Keeper includes role-based vault sharing, MFA enforcement, SSO integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and a secrets manager for API keys and developer credentials. We set up the team structure, enforce MFA across the organisation, and provide staff training to make the transition from spreadsheets straightforward.
Work with us
Deployments are scoped during a free pre-discovery call. Bring your current setup, your concerns, and any incidents that made you think about this. We will tell you what we see and what we would do about it.
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