Solutions Unlimited, LLC

09/04/2026

"We're fine, we have a firewall" I hear this a lot.
A firewall's a locked front door. It says nothing about the windows, the back door, or a key someone already has.

It won't stop a phishing click, a reused password, an old vendor laptop, or an account nobody closed.

Security's a handful of boring habits stacked together, not one tool. Curious what's covering you beyond the firewall?

Comment or DM me.

09/03/2026

Imagine a password of yours shows up in a random data breach; some site you barely remember signing up for.

Not a big deal, unless that same password is reused on your work email.

That's the real risk: one leaked password unlocking more than one account.

Two fixes: a password manager, and multi-factor auth on email and anything financial.

Happy to walk through it if you're not sure where you stand.

09/02/2026

Most businesses find out what's visible to hackers the hard way. After something breaks.

We built CyberWatch so you don't have to find out that way.

Free, 5-minute scan of what the internet can already see about your business, plus a plain-English list of what to fix.

No sales call. Comment or DM me and I'll get you scanned this week.

09/01/2026

Picture this: an invoice shows up that looks exactly like your usual supplier's.
Same logo, same amount. Except the bank routing number's different.

The businesses that catch it do one thing: call the supplier directly, using a number they already have. NOT the one on the invoice.

That's the whole fix. No software needed, just one habit.

08/31/2026

Here's something we see a lot: an employee leaves in March, but by July their email, POS login, and shared drive access all still work.

Nobody turned it off. It just got forgotten.

Fix: one person owns offboarding every time, a same-day shutoff checklist, and a quarterly review of active accounts vs. your staff list.

Had turnover this year? Worth 20 minutes to check.
Comment or message me and I'll send our checklist.

Send a message to learn more

08/26/2026

We just launched something free for local businesses: CyberWatch.
Most companies have no idea what their business looks like from the outside — the same view a hacker gets before they ever try anything. Exposed DNS settings, missing email protections, expiring SSL certificates... small things that quietly add up to real risk.
So we built CyberWatch: free, ongoing monitoring of your business's external cyber exposure. We watch. We alert you. You decide what happens next.
No contract. No obligation. No payment info required. Doesn't matter who handles your IT today — this isn't a pitch to switch, it's just another set of eyes.
Takes about 2 minutes to sign up: https://cyberwatch.solutionsunlimitedsc.com
Solutions Unlimited has been serving Spartanburg and the Upstate for decades. This is our way of giving something back to the local business community.

08/13/2026

My whole job is asking the dumb question so you don’t have to.

Last month it was “ what’s the actual difference between having something turned on and having it actually enforced?”

This month someone asked me what a firewall really does and I had to go find out properly.

So here’s my actual ask: what’s one IT thing you’ve always wondered about and felt dumb asking? Drop it in the comments, I’ll get the real answer and bring it back next week.

No jargon, no pitch, no judgment.

08/07/2026

Every manufacturer has one: the computer nobody is allowed to touch.

It runs the machine that cost six figures. It's on Windows 7. The vendor is gone. So it sits unpatched on the same network as your email and your accounting.

We're not going to tell you to upgrade it. Production wins. Instead:
🔹 Put it on its own network segment
🔹 Take away its internet access
🔹 Make a full image — and actually test the restore
🔹 Write down what it does and who understands it

An isolated old machine is a manageable risk. A forgotten one is an open door.

Run a plant in the Upstate? If there's a machine you're quietly worried about, message us. Happy to just talk it through.

08/06/2026

A small church lost $14,000 to a single email. ⛪

No hacking. No malware. Just a transfer request that looked routine. Shared finance passwords, no verification step, no two-factor authentication.

Churches and nonprofits get targeted on purpose. Small staff, big trust, volunteers coming and going, money that moves quickly.

Three free fixes:
✅ Two-factor authentication on anything that touches money or member data
✅ Verify every large transfer by phone — using a number you already have, never the one in the email
✅ Individual logins for finance. No more shared password.

If you serve on a church board or finance committee here in the Upstate, we'll look at your setup at no charge. Just message us.

08/05/2026

Law firms: do you know which AI tools your staff is using?

Pasting a client contract into a chatbot doesn't set off any alarms. Which is EXACTLY why it keeps happening. And whether it's a confidentiality problem depends on terms almost nobody has read.

Banning AI doesn't work; people just use their phones. Writing down these three rules does:
1. Here are the approved tools. anything else, ask.
2. No client identifying text gets pasted anywhere.
3. AI output gets reviewed, never filed as-is.

If you're not sure what's being used at your firm, that's the finding. We can help you write the policy and it's a short conversation, not a project.