Industries
Churches & Nonprofits
Churches and nonprofits run on volunteers and small budgets, and they hold donor and family data that deserves the same protection as any business.
What makes this different
The problems specific to your sector
Not a generic list. These are the things that come up repeatedly in this kind of business.
Volunteers change constantly
People help for a season and move on, often keeping access to systems long afterwards because nobody owns removing it.
Donor data is genuinely sensitive
Giving records, family details and pastoral notes are exactly the kind of data a congregation expects to be handled carefully.
Budget is real
Every dollar spent on IT is a dollar not spent on the mission, so the work has to be prioritised honestly.
Donation fraud targets congregations
Emails impersonating the pastor asking members for gift cards are a persistent scam, and they work because the domain is not protected.
Compliance
What you are actually required to do
Named obligations rather than the word 'compliance'. If one of these does not apply to you, we will say so.
Donor data protection
Not statutory for most churches, but expected by members and often required by grant funders.
Payment card handling
PCI applies to online and in-person giving just as it does to retail.
Your software
We expect to find these
We work around your line-of-business software rather than asking you to change it, and we deal with the vendor when needed.
- Planning Center
- Church Community Builder
- Tithe.ly
- Breeze ChMS
- Presentation software
Recommended
Where we would start
Microsoft 365 Management
Licensing, migration, hardening and day-to-day administration of Microsoft 365 — including the security settings that ship switched off.
Cybersecurity Services
Layered defence built around how small businesses actually get breached: email, credentials and unpatched endpoints.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backups that are tested on a schedule, with a recovery time you have actually seen demonstrated — not assumed.
Business WiFi
Surveyed, not guessed. Coverage designed for the building you have, with guest traffic kept off the business network.
Questions
Common questions
Is there discounted software for nonprofits?
Yes, and it is substantial. Microsoft 365 has a nonprofit programme with free and heavily discounted tiers. We will make sure you are on it rather than paying commercial rates.
Members get emails from our pastor asking for gift cards. Can that be stopped?
Largely, yes. Those messages usually forge your domain, and configuring SPF, DKIM and DMARC stops most of them from being delivered at all.
How do we manage volunteer access?
A simple documented process for granting and removing access, with a periodic review. It is not complicated, it just needs an owner.
Ready to secure your business?
A free assessment: we review your network, backups, Microsoft 365 settings and exposure, then hand you the findings in writing — whether or not you hire us.